samba - Jan 1999 - Samba servers disappeared?!

Hi all,

I've been running a Samba server here for over 6 months now will great
success.
This past weekend I moved the Samba server to a new subnet, and now I can't
see any of the various aliases from Samba server.

I was previously able to see the aliases in NN across my 2 different subnets
by using the 'wins server = ' parameter.  The wins server I was
registering
with is on yet another network (not even located in this building) and
hasn't
changed.

I would expect that leaving the smb.conf file alone (other than the
'interfaces' line) that everything would be fine, and nothing should
change.

I can, however, connect to the shares directly, and use Find->Computer
to find each alias, but nothing shows up in NN.  I understand that it can
take upto 55 minutes in a worst case scenario for the master browser to update,
but it's been 4 days.

I rebooted the PC I'm testing with, I've restarted smbd several times.
Does anyone have any ideas?  

Thanks,
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Seeya,
Paul
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plussier@baynetworks.com
Broadband Technology Division - Bay Networks (now a Nortel Company, Eh? :)

	If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right!

In a message dated: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 01:41:05 +1100
"Paul L. Lussier" said:
>This past weekend I moved the Samba server to a new subnet, and now I
can't
>see any of the various aliases from Samba server.
>
>I was previously able to see the aliases in NN across my 2 different subnets
>by using the 'wins server = ' parameter.  The wins server I was
registering
>with is on yet another network (not even located in this building) and
hasn't
>changed.
Well, I received no suggestions on this, but ended up figuring it out thanks
to Tom Schutter <tom@platte.com>, who posted the URL for
"Browsing and Windows 95 Networking".  In there I discovered that my
problem
was that there wasn't a Master Browser on the subnet I moved my Samba system
to.  All I needed to do was add:

	local master = yes
        preferred master = yes
        os level = 33

to my smb.conf file and restart Samba.  Then a refresh in my NN window, and
everything showed up.

Thanks Tom, for that reference.
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Seeya,
Paul
----
plussier@baynetworks.com
Broadband Technology Division - Bay Networks (now a Nortel Company, Eh? :)

	If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right!