Hello, Here's a repost on my message of a few days ago, for reasons that I'm not sure if it went through. If it did, my apologies, all suggestions welcome. I'm having an identical problem on slackware linux 7.0 and freebsd 3.4-release and windows 98-2, with sp1, and samba 2.05 and 2.06, depending on which system I've got up. Whenever I restart samba for whatever reason, making a configuration change, or restarting the machine, the 98 machine will not see the samba machine anymore, for at least half an hour, it can see it's own shares, but not that of the samba machine. I'm speculating it's got something to do with which machine has the browse list. I've got the samba machine configed so that it always forces a browser election, and wins, I've also got it's wins capabilities enabled, and the 98 machine going there for wins resolution, neither of the above has solved the problem. My smb.conf global section is below, suggestions welcome, either privately or on list. Thanks. Dave. [global] workgroup = dave server string = slackware samba server netbios name = slackware load printers = yes printcap name = /etc/printcap log file = /var/log/samba.%m max log size = 50 security = share encrypt passwords = yes socket options = TCP_NODELAY local master = yes os level = 70 preferred master = yes wins support = yes ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.
Dave,
Did you find any resolution?
I am having a similar problem: WinNTs and Win98 on the network
neighborhood, and they can connect to, but not see the samba 2.0.6
server.
Is there a way to make nmblookup act like the network neighborhood
browser?
I tried using the code below to scan my subnet looking for names, and
noticed different status results for the nodes, but only some of the names
show up under SE-NTNET on our boxes.
On the Windows side our NT admin is having problems making 'se-ntserver'
show up, and I would like to make the samba server 'mug' show up on the
boxes. Everyone seems to be able to connect and use 'net view ...', but
these GUI resource lists (windows explorer/network neighborhood under
win98 and WinNT) don't seem to work well. This seems like a different
problem than 'BROWSING.txt' covers, since 'net view \\mug'
works.
Dave
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Dave Forrest dforrest@virginia.edu
(804)296-7283h 924-3954w http://mug.sys.virginia.edu/~drf5n/
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# bash nmblookup loop for scanning a subnet --
# requires `series 1 254` to return a list of numbers
for NODE in `series 1 254`
do nmblookup -T -S '*' -U 128.143.6.$NODE >>log&
done
##################
and selected portions of 'log' shows:
se-ntserver.sys.Virginia.EDU, 128.143.6.42 *<00>
Looking up status of 128.143.6.42
received 13 names
SE-NTSERVER <00> - M <ACTIVE>
SE-NTNET <00> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE>
SE-NTSERVER <20> - M <ACTIVE>
SE-NTNET <1c> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE>
SE-NTNET <1b> - M <ACTIVE>
SE-NTSERVER <03> - M <ACTIVE>
INet~Services <1c> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE>
IS~SE-NTSERVER <00> - M <ACTIVE>
SE-NTSERVER <6a> - M <ACTIVE>
SE-NTSERVER <be> - M <ACTIVE>
SE-NTSERVER <6b> - M <ACTIVE>
SE-NTSERVER <87> - M <ACTIVE>
HAL9K <03> - M <CONFLICT> <ACTIVE>
num_good_sends=0 num_good_receives=0
Looking up status of 128.143.6.214
received 6 names
SMITC <00> - B <ACTIVE>
SE-NTNET <00> - <GROUP> B <ACTIVE>
SMITC <03> - B <ACTIVE>
SMITC <20> - B <ACTIVE>
SE-NTNET <1e> - <GROUP> B <ACTIVE>
SMITC <87> - B <ACTIVE>
num_good_sends=0 num_good_receives=0
Looking up status of 128.143.6.223
received 6 names
GRAD-1B <00> - M <ACTIVE>
SE-NTNET <00> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE>
GRAD-1B <03> - M <ACTIVE>
GRAD-1B <20> - M <ACTIVE>
SE-NTNET <1e> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE>
SMO3B <03> - M <ACTIVE>
num_good_sends=0 num_good_receives=0
Looking up status of 128.143.6.251
received 7 names
MUG <00> - B <ACTIVE>
MUG <03> - B <ACTIVE>
MUG <20> - B <ACTIVE>
..__MSBROWSE__. <01> - <GROUP> B <ACTIVE>
SE-NTNET <00> - <GROUP> B <ACTIVE>
SE-NTNET <1d> - B <ACTIVE>
SE-NTNET <1e> - <GROUP> B <ACTIVE>
num_good_sends=0 num_good_receives=0