>all other stations are either XPsp2 or win webserver2003. That does not use netbios or am I mistaken.
I don't know.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)