samba - Aug 1997 - anyone with 1.9.17 browsing problems

i've just spotted a potential browse problem with 1.9.17.

is anyone using an NT WINS server (instead of a samba server) and using 
samba as the domain master browser having cross-subnet browsing 
visibility problems?

i know that there have been a couple of reports on the samba digest, 
recently about 1.9.17 disappearing browse lists from nt workstations.


luke

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@switchboard.net>
wrote:
> i've just spotted a potential browse problem with 1.9.17.
We don't have any NT servers, but only SAMBA servers.  Browsing from
Windows 95 PCs across subnets has *not* been working properly in any of
the 1.9.17alpha? releases nor the final one, and I have sent a number
of problem reports on this.

In the best case, Win95 shows in Entire Network the remote-subnet
workgroup names, but one cannot browse the contents of the workgroups,
other than the main workgroup to which the SAMBA servers belong.  The
SAMBA WINS server seems to be working correctly, since by specifying a
(known) remote PC WINS name, one can browse it just fine (but not its
parent workgroup).  However, some Win95 variants (various languages,
levels and patches from Microsoft) installed here can only see
local-subnet workgroups and no remote ones.  Needless to say, we're
really anxious to get remote-subnet browsing to work.
 
Ole Holm Nielsen
Department of Physics, Building 307
Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark
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