samba - May 1998 - Unable to browse

I have two problems running Samba on Solaris 2.51, Samba version 1.9.16p11.  1) 
When browsing the CADCAM group, which is where the Sun group is, the CADCAM name
shows up on Explorer, but when I click on the group to browse the contents, the
'+' disapears and the group apears to be empty.  We can, however, map
drives using \\sun01\sharname' directly.
2) When we dial into the network from outside our company, dial in thru a shiva
modem pool, users cannot see the CADCAM group at all.

ANyone have suggestions?

Garrett Curtis
System Manager
gcurtis@sermatech-lehr.com
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> Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 09:11:32 -0400
> From: "Curtis, Garret" <gcurtis@lehrprecision.com>
> To: "'samba@samba.anu.edu.au'"
<samba@samba.anu.edu.au>
> Subject: Unable to browse
>
> I have two problems running Samba on Solaris 2.51, Samba version >
1.9.16p11.  1)  When browsing the CADCAM group, which is where the Sun >
group is, the CADCAM name shows up on Explorer, but when I click on the >
group to browse the contents, the '+' disapears and the group apears to
> be empty.  We can, however, map drives using \\sun01\sharname'
directly.
>
  We have had exactly the same problem here and, when we 
  realized that there was another machine with the same netbios 
  name, we changed our server's name and it worked. 

  The other machine was a novell server.

  I hope this will help you.

-- 
                            Miquel Bonastre (miquel@fib.upc.es)
                            Area de Sistemes Unix (LCFIB)
                            Facultat d'Informatica de Barcelona
                            Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya

For various reasons, I demoted my one-and-only NT2000 server from domain
master to standalone last week.  Since then, I've been unable to browse the
network.

When I try to browse from, say, my Win2K desktop, I get

Windows is not accessible
The Network Name cannot be found.

But it _is_ accessible.  SAMBA can still _see_ everything just fine - all
the shares show up; all the printers work.  It's just that nobody can
browse.

I made SAMBA my master domain browser:

# Global parameters
[globals]
        time server = yes
        netbios name = DENMANTIRE
        workgroup = WINDOWS
        wins support = yes
        name resolve order = wins hosts bcast mlhosts
        os level = 33
        local master = yes
        preferred master = yes
        domain master = yes
        remote announce = 192.168.0.255/WINDOWS \
                          192.168.1.255/WINDOWS \
                          192.168.2.255/WINDOWS \
                          192.168.3.255/WINDOWS
        log level = 2
        password level = 8
        security = user
        encrypt passwords = no

... and ./var/log.nmb seems to think that I'm the master browser:

 Samba name server DENMANTIRE is now a local master browser for workgroup
WINDOWS on subnet 192.168.0.2

  *****
[2000/07/21 09:31:24, 2]
nmbd/nmbd_browsesync.c:announce_local_master_browser_to
_domain_master_browser(121)
  announce_local_master_browser_to_domain_master_browser:
  We are both a domain and a local master browser for workgroup WINDOWS.  Do
not
 announce to ourselves.
[2000/07/21 09:31:24, 2] nmbd/nmbd_browsesync.c:sync_with_dmb(160)
sync_with_dmb:
  Initiating sync with domain master browser DENMANTIRE<20> at IP
192.168.0.2 for workgroup WINDOWS
>From my NT DOS prompt, I can see everything:
[g:\]net view \\yvonne
Shared resources at \\yvonne

Yvonne's Computer

Share name   Type         Used as  Comment

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
---
SALES-PRINT  Print                 Yvonne's printer
The command completed successfully.


[g:\]net view \\george
Shared resources at \\george

George's Computer

Share name   Type         Used as  Comment

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
---
HP           Print
The command completed successfully.


... but I can't see anything:

[g:\]net view

System error 86 has occurred.

The specified network password is not correct.

I've got all the encrypted password problems solved - this setup has been
working for almost two years! - so it's not that.

Any help would be appreciated.  We're going nuts here.

Thanks,

Tim Boyer
IS Manager
Denman Tire Corporation
tim@denmantire.com <mailto:tim@denmantire.com>