samba - Mar 2017 - Can connect and work with Samba share from Windows host, but "net view" returns "System error 6118"

Hello

I'm running Samba 3.6.6 on a Debian appliance on a private LAN.

Here's the host's /etc/samba/smb.conf:
=============[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
netbios name = LINUX

security = user
map to guest = Bad User
;default user = nobody

hosts allow = 127.0.0.1 192.168.0.0/24
hosts deny = 0.0.0.0/0

log level = 2

wins support = yes
local master = yes
preferred master = yes

[myshare]
path = /usr/share/myshare
guest ok = yes
writeable=yes
browseable=yes

force create mode = 0644
create mask = 0664
security mask = 0664
force security mode = 0664
=============
I can connect and read/write just fine from a remote Windows 7 host using
the "net use z: \\linux\myshare" command, but the "net view"
command returns
the following error: "System error 6118 has occurred. The list of servers
for this workgroup is not currently available".

Any idea why Windows' Network Neighborhood is empty?

Thank you.



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On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 10:18:31 -0700 (PDT)
Winfried via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> 
> I can connect and read/write just fine from a remote Windows 7 host
> using the "net use z: \\linux\myshare" command, but the "net
view"
> command returns the following error: "System error 6118 has occurred.
> The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available".
> 
> Any idea why Windows' Network Neighborhood is empty?
> 
Two thoughts, are they in the same workgroup ? or is a firewall in the
way ?

Rowland

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> On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 10:18:31 -0700 (PDT)
> Winfried via samba <
> samba at .samba
> > wrote:
> 
>> 
>> I can connect and read/write just fine from a remote Windows 7 host
>> using the "net use z: \\linux\myshare" command, but the
"net view"
>> command returns the following error: "System error 6118 has
occurred.
>> The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently
available".
>> 
>> Any idea why Windows' Network Neighborhood is empty?
>> 
> 
> Two thoughts, are they in the same workgroup ? or is a firewall in the
> way ?
> 
> Rowland
> 
> 
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Thanks for the tip.

The workgroup name was OK.

It looks like the trick was to those lines to smb.conf:
wins support = yes
local master = yes
preferred master = yes
;Add those two lines
domain master = yes
os level = 255

There's another Samba host on the LAN, whose smb.conf contains none of those
items, so I guess the first host wins the election every time.

There is indeed a firewall on the Windows host that blocked incoming UDP
137-138, although for some reason, it wasn't a problem: After simply making
this change to smb.conf, "net view" started working even while the
firewall
still blocked incoming UDP packets. Black magic.

Thank you.



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