samba - Sep 2002 - stubborn machine

Heya,

i got this problem with stubborn win98 machine refusing to show up on the
browse list, my samba is the local/domain master browser and login server for
the whole local network, using user security.

the workstation has all the same protocols and settings like the other 6, only
difference is the ip and the netbios name, the login used on that machine
matches  existing username on my linux machine, the user has working access to
all the shares and can browse the rest of the workgroup with no problems, there
is 2 shares on that machine, both working if i directly type
\\machinename\sharename or just \\machinename then i can see all the shares
listed.

for the love of linux i can't figure out what i did/didn't do somewhere
to make
the machine not show on the browse list, considering i never had any other
problem with samba at all.

any of you guys had this problem and know how to fix it ?


					Thanks,

                                                Dingo.


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On Monday 09 September 2002 10:39, Petr [Dingo] Dvorak wrote:

[...]
> the workstation has all the same protocols and settings like the other 6,
> only difference is the ip and the netbios name, the login used on that
> machine matches  existing username on my linux machine, the user has
> working access to all the shares and can browse the rest of the workgroup
> with no problems, there is 2 shares on that machine, both working if i
> directly type
> \\machinename\sharename or just \\machinename then i can see all the shares
> listed.
This sounds so familiar :)
> for the love of linux i can't figure out what i did/didn't do
somewhere to
> make the machine not show on the browse list, considering i never had any
> other problem with samba at all.
Well, you did nothing wrong :)
> any of you guys had this problem and know how to fix it ?
Yes for the first, no for the second, I'm afraid. As far as I could trace 
this, it's a win98 problem. We alsho have a box or two that won't play
with
the other boxes.. For one it went away as I configured samba to be a wins 
server, the other one still keeps seperate.
Write a bug report to MS.. but get a fake mail address first. :)

Cheers, Kai

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