samba - Apr 2004 - BROWSING SUCKS

Hi guys,
I got this wired situation. I would appreciate if someone of you could help.


NETWORK:
We have a windows based network of approx 25 computers (Win 98, Win 2000, in NT,
Win XP (both Pro and Home). We have a Samba server running on RH9 which acts as
the domain controller and master browser for the entire network (OS level = 70)

PROBLEM:
SOMETIMES, in the windows, when I open NETWORKING NEIGHBOURHOOD, I just see one
or two computers, MANTA1 (SAMBA Server) and some other computer. When I restart
the Samba Services apparently everything starts to work fine again. I tried
changing OS Level from 65 to 70 but still no success. Since a few days, the
problem seems to happen every 24 hours and I have to restart the services
everyday. Previously it used to occur every 7 days or so.

Thanks.
Saad.

You might want to consider enabling and configurins WINS for your
network, rather than rely on the serendipity of broadcast browsing.

On a more practical note, I've had similar problems when some of the
Windows Clients installed Norton Internet Security... one computer
with the Internet firewall would, for reasons unknown, interfere with
windows network browsing for the whole network.

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 11:21:04AM -0400, Saad Ahmed
wrote:
> Hi guys,
> I got this wired situation. I would appreciate if someone of you could
help.
> 
> 
> NETWORK:
> We have a windows based network of approx 25 computers (Win 98, Win 2000,
in NT, Win XP (both Pro and Home). We have a Samba server running on RH9 which
acts as the domain controller and master browser for the entire network (OS
level = 70)
> 
> PROBLEM:
> SOMETIMES, in the windows, when I open NETWORKING NEIGHBOURHOOD, I just see
one or two computers, MANTA1 (SAMBA Server) and some other computer. When I
restart the Samba Services apparently everything starts to work fine again. I
tried changing OS Level from 65 to 70 but still no success. Since a few days,
the problem seems to happen every 24 hours and I have to restart the services
everyday. Previously it used to occur every 7 days or so.
> 
> Thanks.
> Saad.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rashkae [mailto:rashkae@tigershaunt.com]
> You might want to consider enabling and configurins WINS for your
> network, rather than rely on the serendipity of broadcast browsing.
I'll second this suggestion.  When I turned on WINS on our network (which is
about the same size -- around 35 machines) and configured all the systems to
use it, it made a big difference.  Network neighborhood is much more stable
and consistent, there's less network traffic, and clients no longer have to
be running for 5-10 minutes before they have a complete browse list.