samba - Apr 2004 - Invisible samba server

Hi,

My samba server "linux-1" (samba-3.0.2-7.FC1) has suddenly become
invisible from all windows client. The samba server is a member of the
"RASKNO" workgroup and was visible when browsing the workgroup from
windows clients a few weeks ago.

The weird thing is that it is now invisible. The only changes has been
regular updates of FC1. 

The symptoms is that I can search for and find linux-1 from any windows
client. I will end up in RASKNO as expected when I navigate one step up
from linux-1. The weird thing is that linux-1 is invisible from that
position. The global "browseable" option is set to "yes".

Any suggestions?


Thanks a lot in advance!
  jules

I've had a similar problem.  In my case it was falling out of WINS.  I 
fixed it by stopping and starting nmbd each day.  Here is my crontab 
entry:

#Refresh the WINS entry for this Samba Server 
  #First kill the nmbd process 
  2 2 * * * kill `/usr/bin/cat /usr/local/samba/var/locks/nmbd.pid` 
  #One hour and one minute later restart nmbd 
  3 3 * * * /usr/local/samba/sbin/nmbd -D 




Jules Colding <jules@tdcadsl.dk>
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Hi,

My samba server "linux-1" (samba-3.0.2-7.FC1) has suddenly become
invisible from all windows client. ......