>>Thanks. I tried this but it didn't change the situation much. I got my hands on a freely-available book on Samba administration and it seems that I have a name resolution problem and a master browser election problem.
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>If you change your OS level to 255 on the linux box, it will always win the election. You could also turn off browser (local, master, domain) capabilities on the NT machine to make sure.
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That's what I read on the book too and I implemented this from the settings you gave me. But still, looking in the log file for nmbd there are several messages where it states that the samba host stopped being the master browser. Both machines are under the same workgroup "workgroup", and I have not been able to create an account for the NT PC on the samba "domain" from the NT network settings.

I've added an "Trust Account" entry in /etc/passwd for it and also added it as a user with smbpasswd -a. Will keep troubleshooting this I guess.

Thanks.