samba - Nov 1997 - Samba disappears from Net. Neighbourhood!?

I'm running 1.9.17p2 on a Sparc machine.  I have an NT server on the same 
subnet that is acting as the master browser.

Every so often I notice that my Samba machine disappears from Network 
Neighbourhood.  Samba continues to run and I can access it but the
browse capability is getting lost somewhere.

Anyone experienced this?  Any idea how to debug this?

Here is my smb.conf:

[global]

   workgroup = pmc_nt 
   comment = Samba Server
   browseable = yes
   netbios name = nt-nfs 
   autoservices = homes
   server string = PMC Samba Server
   log file = /home/cs/admin/solaris/samba/var/log.%m
   max log size = 50 
   short preserve case = yes
   preserve case = yes
   lock directory = /tmp/samba
   locking = yes
   share modes = yes
   local master =no 
   domain master = no 
   wins server = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 
   wins proxy = yes

[homes]
   comment = Unix Home Directory
   browseable = no
   writable = yes
   read only = no
   create mode = 0750

[CS-test]
   comment = CS Test Directory 
   path = /home/cs
   browseable = yes 
   public = no 
   writeable = no
   write list = @cs
   create mode = 0755

---
Jeff Newton
Unix Systems Administrator
Computer Services
PMC-Sierra Inc.

Jeff Newton wrote:
> 
> I'm running 1.9.17p2 on a Sparc machine.  I have an NT server on the
same
> subnet that is acting as the master browser.
> 
> Every so often I notice that my Samba machine disappears from Network
> Neighbourhood.  Samba continues to run and I can access it but the
> browse capability is getting lost somewhere.
> 
> Anyone experienced this?  Any idea how to debug this?
> 
> Here is my smb.conf:
<snip>
>    local master =no
>    domain master = no
<snip>

Hi !

I already reported this to samba-bugs. It is caused by the settings of
your smb.conf I have quoted above. Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
promised to look after it. The problem is that he has to figure out how
exactly a non-local-master samba machine should behave to get the
registering at the domain master correctly.
And he seems to leave his experimental NT domain only to get himself
some food... :-))

I think you could try to get access to the NT server, and then use
"netmon" (I think that was the name ?) to see how and when other
samba machines (preferrably Windows) register their names compared
to your Sparc.

My "workaround" at the moment is to simply kill the nmbd, and start
it again.
-- 
Dieter Rothacker