hello I am currently running a redhat 7.2 server configured with DHCPd, named, and the current version of SAMBA. I am using samba in workgroup configuration providing WINS. samba is set as master browser. There are no shares and no Windows servers. We make heavy use of peer-to-peer copying between workstations. The LAN consists of 3 linux, 10 win 2k pro, 5 win 95, 15 win 98, 1 win 3.1. One of the other linux boxes has an older version of samba but it is only used in client mode...the daemons aren't running. The problem is that even though samba keeps an accurate browse list, the clients have sporadic problems...sometimes the list is incomplete, other times they see only the server. The other thing is that samba ran fine with not a single error for about 3 months and then only recently this problem started showing up, and its been getting worse. All clients are having the problem on and off - not isolated to a particular client OS. None of the configurations on the server have been changed since then. Generally I have to restart both samba and the client for them to be able to see the complete browse list. Many thanks in advance -Ross
Ross: I had a set of problems not unlike yours and it turned out to be related to the fact that the windoze clients had the netbeui protocol loaded (in some cases they had ipx as well - for what reason I don't know). I had to go to each workstation and remove all protocols except tcp/ip and then everything was fine. Hope this helps. James ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ross A. Graber" <rgraber@esisinc.com> To: <samba@lists.samba.org> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 11:13 AM Subject: clients not seeing complete browse list> hello > > I am currently running a redhat 7.2 server configured with DHCPd, named,and> the current version of SAMBA. I am using samba in workgroup configuration > providing WINS. samba is set as master browser. There are no shares and no > Windows servers. We make heavy use of peer-to-peer copying between > workstations. > > The LAN consists of 3 linux, 10 win 2k pro, 5 win 95, 15 win 98, 1 win3.1.> One of the other linux boxes has an older version of samba but it is only > used in client mode...the daemons aren't running. > > The problem is that even though samba keeps an accurate browse list, the > clients have sporadic problems...sometimes the list is incomplete, other > times they see only the server. The other thing is that samba ran finewith> not a single error for about 3 months and then only recently this problem > started showing up, and its been getting worse. All clients are having the > problem on and off - not isolated to a particular client OS. None of the > configurations on the server have been changed since then. > > Generally I have to restart both samba and the client for them to be ableto> see the complete browse list. > > Many thanks in advance > -Ross > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Ken, thanks for the suggestion. I have the os level=64 domain master=yes preferred master=yes I have the DHCP server setting the WINS server when the IP lease is given...should I manually set WINS server entries on all the systems? (The DHCP push of settings works fine for DNS...) James suggested looking for NetBEUI and IPX installs...I removed all of them before putting up the server. cheers -ross -----Original Message----- From: Ken Cobler [mailto:kcobler@coblercorp.com] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 12:30 PM To: Ross A. Graber Subject: Re: clients not seeing complete browse list When I had this problem, it turned out that some of the workstations were not pointing to the Samba server for WINS information. Once I added the appropriate WINS entry in each computer, browse master worked as well as it will for Microsoft Networking. Don't forget to add the parameter to make certain the Samba server (nmbd) wins all browse master elections. Ken Cobler