Pat said... > I meant "in stead of". As I noticed that your DNS is looking in its host > file "co" which is only part of the host name, I remembered that we had this > kind of problem as well. When I reduced the name to one single word only in > the host file with the IP address of the HP, it worked just fine for me. > This name can even be completely different from anything you have already > set up for your HP3000 in the DNS, proxy, router and HP itself. It's weird, > I know. I made the change and still no difference. Here is a snipit from our hosts file. Keep in mind, before I tried Samaba, there was no entry for XL3, only the loop back. To test out Patrick's idea, I commented out the line with the fully qualified name and ailias and just put a seperate entry: # 127.0.0.1 localhost loopback me myself local # 10.1.8.248 xl3.co.frederick.md.us xl3 10.1.8.248 xl3 ------------------------------------- Since I'm sharing files, here is the bit out of the RESLVNCF file: domain co.frederick.md.us nameserver 192.23.1.251 #Added second nameserver on 01/19/98 nameserver 10.1.8.253 ----------------------------------- /alan