samba - Jan 2002 - Basic browsing problem

Hi all

I have a basic problem in my very little LAN. I simply cant browse from 
Windows. They are all Win98 SE machines and they do not reconize my samba 
server (which is a PDC and it is working nicely, and it is also a wins, and 
Wins.dat looks ok) as master browser. I see from the logs that that PC IS the 
master browser. 

There is a way to statically say to a Win98 machine who is the master browser?
There is a way to disable a Win98 to try to get a master browser? This might 
be not useful, as my Samba Server level is 64 but I want to try....

My logs are not saying anything not interesting, so I wont post them here. 
Now I am increasing the logging level so I will control again.

Moreover, I can browse from Linux (with LinNeighbourhood). 
My LAN has got only 4 PC, and no subnets.

Praise

Most likely a config problem:

(1) in smb.conf make sure you have:

    encrypt passwords = yes    (Win98 SE uses encrypted passwords by default)

(2) each Windows user needs a Unix account/password and Samba account/password.
The unix and samba accounts/passwords must match.

Create unix accounts

    #adduser "user1"
     password "user1 password"

(repeat for each user)

Create samba passwords

    #smbpasswd -a "user1"

(repeat for each user)

(3) Now on the windows side. User the same login name and password for each user
that you did above.

(4) If you are using static IP's, you may also want to add your hosts and
IP's to
the /etc/hosts file

That should get you going:  Also see:

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/index.html

Praise wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have a basic problem in my very little LAN. I simply cant browse from
> Windows. They are all Win98 SE machines and they do not reconize my samba
> server (which is a PDC and it is working nicely, and it is also a wins, and
> Wins.dat looks ok) as master browser. I see from the logs that that PC IS
the
> master browser.
>
> There is a way to statically say to a Win98 machine who is the master
browser?
> There is a way to disable a Win98 to try to get a master browser? This
might
> be not useful, as my Samba Server level is 64 but I want to try....
>
> My logs are not saying anything not interesting, so I wont post them here.
> Now I am increasing the logging level so I will control again.
>
> Moreover, I can browse from Linux (with LinNeighbourhood).
> My LAN has got only 4 PC, and no subnets.
>
> Praise
>
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On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 11:48, Praise wrote:
> There is a way to statically say to a Win98 machine who is the master
browser?
This I don't know.
> There is a way to disable a Win98 to try to get a master browser? This
might
> be not useful, as my Samba Server level is 64 but I want to try....
In win95 it's under "File and printer sharing for Miscrosoft
network" in
the Network control panel.  There are two parameters named "Master
Browser" and "LM announce" which can be turned off to prevent
becoming
the (local?) master browser.  I suppose this to be the same under win98.

But like you already said I don't think this is the cause of your
problem since your samba server has an os level high enough to guarantee
a winning of the master browser election.  But you can give it a shot...

Kohei