Hi guys,
I am encountering this very strange problem with running of samba (v.
samba-3.0.1-2). In one occasion, I needed to swap the ethernet cards
between two clients (both Windows CP as well as the IPs according in
dhcpd server. There was this incident of IP conflict warning on one
client I renewed the IP (after dhcpd restarted) while the other client
still had the same IP. This was quickly corrected by refreshing this
other client's IP and everything seemed to be ok.
However, after this, in both clients (or other clients that were later
added), My Network Places are always empty without showing any clients
in the workgroup (yes, the workgroup itself shows), not even samba
server itself. Although it gives empty workgroup content, I have no
trouble at all to ping/browse in the clients between each other and the
server by typing \\IP or \\hostname. Command "net view hostname" in
Windows XP command prompt also successfully returns shared resources
(folders and printers). Mapping as network drives directly on the
clients also work perfectly as before. Here only thing that goes wrong
is the Network Places browsing (and it is quite serious :().
I have tried different way to fix it, without much luck (delete samba
cache, flush DNS and WINS cache in the clients). I particularly
mentioned the IP change incident since it is what I remember the last
thing I did before this problem pops up. Except recently I upgraded
from samba 3.0.0.2.
Can anyone here help me with this, any advise and help would be really
great. I am running out of ideas :(
Thanks alot,
Johnny
smb.conf
=====================# Global parameters
[global]
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
pam password change = yes
encrypt passwords = yes
max log size = 50
obey pam restrictions = yes
passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new*password* %n\n
*passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully*
security = user
unix password sync = yes
workgroup = MYHOME
server string = My Server Computer
netbios name = server
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
hosts allow = 192.168.50.
# printing options
printing = cups
printcap name = cups
load printers = yes
show add printer wizard = yes
printer admin = me
display charset = UTF8
# configure server to be a WINS server
wins support = yes
name resolve order = wins lmhosts bcast
# alert SAMBA to use configured DNS or not
dns proxy = no
# allow samba server to broadcast via specified interface(s)
interfaces = br0
# configure this machine to be browser server
local master = yes
domain master = yes
preferred master = yes
# global share drive settings
preserve case = yes
# perfomance enhancement settings
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
#[homes]
#comment = Home Directories
#read only = no
#browseable = yes
[my-share]
comment = general files
path = /mnt/my-share
read only = no
browseable = yes
[my-backup]
comment = backup files
path = /mnt/my-backup
read only = no
browseable = yes
[my-archive]
comment = temporary files
path = /mnt/my-archive
read only = no
browseable = yes
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = yes
guest ok = no
writable = no
printable = yes
use client driver = yes
[print$]
comment = Printer Drivers
path = /etc/samba/drivers
guest ok = no
browseable = no
read only = yes
write list = me
