CentOS - Dec 2009 - Cannot see samba in win Neighborhood

Hello u all, sorry to bring this issue back again, but I?ve been
searching and trying all the advices suggested in previous posts and I
still can?t see the samba server in the win network neighborhood.

I can see the samba shares from win via net view \\servername

but if I issue a plain "net view" samba won?t show up. only the win
machines, the same i can see on the Neighborhood...

and when I select local master = no  Samba would stay without master!
I issue smbclient -L servername -U% and the master section remains empty.

It?s like samba is not being able to "talk" to the rest of the
workgroup. (of course they are all in the same workgroup)

I?m using "wins support = yes" and I?ve set the DHCP to set the
clients to
use the samba server as wins server.I?ve checked the win clients and they
get the correct conf.

I?ve tried stopping iptables, disabling Selinux, different smb.conf from the
simple
examples of t first chapters of samba by example,  to plenty of
options... that?s why I?m not including my smb.conf, because I?ve
tried many variations, always with the same results.
I tried a basic samba configuration in a ubuntu server in another box just
to test, anf the win clients were able to see it in the neigbohood... so I
guess the issue is on my Centos box. I tried the same smb.conf from that
working ubuntu-samba and didn?t make it on the Centos...

Btw, the server is a Centos 5.3, with samba 3.2.15 (it also happened
with the default samba, so I?ve upgraded just in case...)

I hope someone can point me some directions...

thanks in advance!!

Matias
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>It?s like samba is not being able to "talk" to the rest of the
>workgroup. (of course they are all in the same workgroup)
>
>I?m using "wins support = yes" and I?ve set the DHCP to set the
clients to use the samba server as wins server.I?ve checked the win clients and
they get the correct conf.
Unless you have pre w2k clients, disable Wins, Win2k uses DNS or Netbios res.
What you are experiencing is a lag in the population of the master browser, you
need patience. You could setup up dyn dns for the Samba server and win clients
as well...

You set local master = no, so what / who is the master browser? Do you have any
win servers?

Setup Sambas as per the example, then go away and grab a coffee... It takes ~15
mins...