<snip> > I believe Nautlius may have something similar to KDE's "smb://" URI handler > too, but I haven't used Gnome in a very long time. Sorry. Yes it does, I tend to open any win xp machine on my network via the run command in Gnome and the connection string: smb://machineName or smb://ipaddress this gives you a list of shares on that machine <snip> Gary