samba - Oct 2002 - samba server does not appear in network neighborhood

Hi all,

I've recently setup samba 2.2.5 on a solaris 8 workstation and configured it
to be a member of an NT domain. Everything is working correctly, with the 
exception that the samba server does not appear in the network neighborhood of 
the rest of the PC's in the domain. However, if you choose to "search
for
computers" and enter the netbios name of the server it is detected and all
of
the shares show up correctly. I've set the "wins server" option in
my smb.conf
file to the ip address of the local wins server, and my NT administrator 
claims to have created an entry for the machine (anyone know how I can verify 
this?), so I'm pretty much at a loss at this point. Here are the options
I've
set:

smb.conf
[global]
workgroup = mydomain
netbios name = my_netbios_name # same as dns hostname (but not fqdn)
security = domain
local master = no
domain master = false
preferred master = false
wins server = xx.xx.xx.xx
dns proxy = no

I've also added the following lines to /etc/services:

netbios-ns  137/udp  nbns
netbios-ns  137/tcp  nbns
netbios-dgm 138/udp  nbdgm
netbios-dgm 138/tcp  nbdgm
netbios-ssn 139/udp  nbssn
netbios-ssn 139/tcp  nbssn

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
-brian

Are you using Win XP ?

We have a similar problem, except that it was working a few weeks
and than suddenly the XP computer cannot see the samba server
anymore !!

All other computers (Win98, WinNT) works still fine - only XP is the
problem and we habe no clue whats going on.

All the hints: XP registry, Firewall, Security does not solve our problem.
We are still stucked - XP is not seeing Samba ;-(((((


hinz@umbc.edu wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've recently setup samba 2.2.5 on a solaris 8 workstation and
configured it
> to be a member of an NT domain. Everything is working correctly, with the 
> exception that the samba server does not appear in the network neighborhood
of
> the rest of the PC's in the domain. However, if you choose to
"search for
> computers" and enter the netbios name of the server it is detected and
all of
> the shares show up correctly. I've set the "wins server"
option in my smb.conf
> file to the ip address of the local wins server, and my NT administrator 
> claims to have created an entry for the machine (anyone know how I can
verify
> this?), so I'm pretty much at a loss at this point. Here are the
options I've
> set:
> 
> smb.conf
> [global]
> workgroup = mydomain
> netbios name = my_netbios_name # same as dns hostname (but not fqdn)
> security = domain
> local master = no
> domain master = false
> preferred master = false
> wins server = xx.xx.xx.xx
> dns proxy = no
> 
> I've also added the following lines to /etc/services:
> 
> netbios-ns  137/udp  nbns
> netbios-ns  137/tcp  nbns
> netbios-dgm 138/udp  nbdgm
> netbios-dgm 138/tcp  nbdgm
> netbios-ssn 139/udp  nbssn
> netbios-ssn 139/tcp  nbssn
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> -brian
> 
> 
>