Hey folks, We recently reIP'ed our main office LAN. Ever since this was done, none of our Samba hosts are browsable via Network Neighborhood. While they are still availible via Start -> Run -> \\servername, it's an annoying inconvenience. Stats: * PDC and BDC are NT domain controllers * Samba hosts are running several versions of Samba, from the later 2.0.* releases, through 2.2.1 and 2.2.3 * Samba hosts include Linux, IRIX, HP-UX, and Solaris To me, this points at a WINS problem, but deleting the machine account from the domain and adding a new one does no good. Unfortunately, since WINS is such a black art (at least to me), the NT admins can't figure out where the problem lies, either. I doubt if this is a problem with Samba itself, but I'm hoping that since we're all here because we're integrating *NIX with Windows networks, someone might have run into this problem before. Any help would be much appreciated! If you need further info, I'll be happy to provide it. Thanks! Benny ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Always carry a short length of fibre-optic cable. If you get lost, then you can drop it on the ground, wait ten minutes, and ask the backhoe operator how to get back to civilization. -Alan Frame
Did you update the hosts/lmhosts files on all of the servers & clients? If not, they still contain the IP info from your old scheme... Jim> -----Original Message----- > From: C. Bensend [mailto:benny@bennyvision.com] > Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 6:01 AM > To: samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: [Samba] After reIP, Samba hosts not browsable. > > > > Hey folks, > > We recently reIP'ed our main office LAN. Ever since > this was done, none of our Samba hosts are browsable via > Network Neighborhood. While they are still availible via > Start -> Run -> \\servername, it's an annoying inconvenience. > > Stats: > > * PDC and BDC are NT domain controllers > * Samba hosts are running several versions of Samba, > from the later 2.0.* releases, through 2.2.1 and > 2.2.3 > * Samba hosts include Linux, IRIX, HP-UX, and Solaris > > To me, this points at a WINS problem, but deleting the > machine account from the domain and adding a new one does no > good. Unfortunately, since WINS is such a black art (at least > to me), the NT admins can't figure out where the problem lies, > either. > > I doubt if this is a problem with Samba itself, but I'm > hoping that since we're all here because we're integrating *NIX > with Windows networks, someone might have run into this problem > before. > > Any help would be much appreciated! If you need further info, > I'll be happy to provide it. > > Thanks! > > Benny > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Always carry a short length of fibre-optic cable. If > you get lost, then you can drop it on the ground, wait > ten minutes, and ask the backhoe operator how to get > back to civilization. -Alan Frame > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >
Odd...Does the WINS server have a static mapping for any of the old network hosts? You might try flushing the WINS database and letting it rebuild. Does the server have a 15-character name? There have been some issues discussed lately re: that... Try using a different name for the samba server and see if it becoems browseable... Jim> -----Original Message----- > From: C. Bensend [mailto:benny@bennyvision.com] > Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 3:36 PM > To: Herb Lewis > Cc: samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: Re: [Samba] After reIP, Samba hosts not browsable. > > > > On Fri, 10 May 2002, Herb Lewis wrote: > > > If you are set up to use WINS this is definitely your problem. > > If possible upgrade your samba systems to 2.2.4. Previous > > versions had a bug where the would not register with the > > WINS server if there was an old registration there - even > > if that was no longer being defended. > > > > "Van Sickler, Jim" wrote: > > > > > > Did you update the hosts/lmhosts files on > > > all of the servers & clients? If not, > > > they still contain the IP info from your > > > old scheme... > > Hello Herb and Jim, > > I checked, and the hosts and lmhosts files did not > contain any old IP information. > > I did go ahead and upgrade one of my machines to > 2.2.4, with no change - the host still did not appear in > Network Neighborhood. I checked with the Windows guys, and > there was no previous machine account on the domain for that > machine. Before the reIP, it was browsable. > > This seems to point 100% at WINS, but I hope that I'm > not ruffling too many feathers by continuing this thread > here - I think that this is probably the best group to help, > even though it doesn't seem to be a problem exclusively with > Samba. > > I very much appreciate the suggestions so far, and thanks in > advance for any further help you folks can give. :) > > Benny > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Always carry a short length of fibre-optic cable. If > you get lost, then you can drop it on the ground, wait > ten minutes, and ask the backhoe operator how to get > back to civilization. -Alan Frame > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >