I recently downloaded and installed binary versions of Samba 2.0.7 on two Sun Microsystems platforms running Solaris 7. One of the machines is an Enterprise 5000 and the other is an Ultra 10. I set up both servers for USER lever security and set all shares to be browseable. Both were set to be in workgroup SUN. When first installed, both machines appeared in workgroup Sun under Entire Network on pcs and shares could be mapped to network drives with no problem. However, after using Samba for a couple of weeks, we have found that the Sun workgroup only appears in the browser intermittently on most of the pcs. You might see it on one pc but not on a pc next door. Tomorrow, you might be able to see it on either or both. Sometimes one of the machines shows up in the workgroup and the other does not. Refreshing the view in the browser makes no difference; neither does rebooting the pc. Shares can be mapped to network drives on a pc whether or not the workgroup shows up on the pc, but it would be nice for the workgroup to show in the browser consistently. Can you shed any light on the problem? Thanks. Lloyd W. Baldwin Computer Systems Administrator Suwannee River Water Management District 9225 County Road 49 Live Oak, Florida 32060 phone 800-226-1066 (Florida only), 904-362-1001 Suncom 821-3220 email baldwin_l@srwmd.state.fl.us
Lloyd Baldwinwrote: | When first installed, both machines appeared in workgroup Sun [...] | However, after using Samba for a couple of weeks, we have found that | the Sun workgroup only appears in the browser intermittently on most | of the pcs. You might see it on one pc but not on a pc next door. | Tomorrow, you might be able to see it on either or both. Hmmn: sounds like the browse lists aren't getting fully populated, possibly after elections. Try setting the samba servers to win the browse-master elections, as they are more likely to stay up than the usual masters (typically machines with the newest releases of NT on the net) There's some discussion of winning elections in section 5.1.3 of http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch05_01.html --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify some people 185 Ellerslie Ave., | and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain Willowdale, Ontario | //www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/author.html Work: (905) 415-2849 Home: (416) 223-8968 Email: davecb@canada.sun.com