Hi All, Sorry if this is a re-post, I sent it in to gmane.network.samba.general yesterday and haven't seen it posted yet, so I decided to send it to the list. I am currently running samba 3.0.3 on Fedora Core 2 (Kernel 2.6.6). The samba server is running as the PDC for the domain, with no other servers and a handful of 98 and XP clients. The problem is that Windows XP clients will not show up in My Network Places or Network Neighborhood. When using UNC names I am able to access the machines, but cannot find them otherwise. I am not even able to see them with net view. All of the 98 clients show up fine. The clients are configured with Client for Microsoft Networks, File and Printer Sharing and TCP/IP. In the TCP/IP options I specified to use NetBIOS over TCP/IP and have set the wins server to the address of the Samba server. The bindings for the client adapters are (in order): File and printer sharing and client for Microsoft networks. I cannot change the order. None of the machines have any sort of personal firewall software. One other thing, when I browse the entire network, I can see two copies of my domain. The XP clients show one instance of the domain empty and the 98 clients show both with the same computers (the server and the 98 clients) Is this a problem with Samba, or XP? I have googled this but cannot find an answer. Below is a copy of my smb.conf Thanks [global] workgroup netbios name = encrypt passwords = Yes # password level = 8 changed 8/10/04 see below # username level = 8 changed 8/10/04 see below printcap name = cups logon script = scripts\%U.bat logon drive = h: domain logons = Yes # os level = 64 changed 8/11/04 see below preferred master = Yes domain master = Yes wins support = Yes # wins proxy = Yes removed 8/10/04 not needed? admin users = root force create mode = 0775 security mask = 00 force directory mode = 0775 directory security mask = 00 printing = cups server string = Linux Server # These Global Params added 08/10/04: security = user server schannel = auto server signing = auto socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 interfaces = eth0 192.168.0.3/255.255.255.0 hosts allow = 192.168.0. 127. log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -m %u delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel -r %u add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd %g delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel %g add user to group script = /usr/sbin/usermod -G %g %u add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/false \ -d /dev/null %u unix password sync = Yes passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *New*UNIX*password* %n\n *ReType*new*UNIX*password* %n\n *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully* username map = /etc/samba/smbusers username level = 0 password level = 0 # Global params added 08/11/04: os level = 33 [netlogon] path = /var/samba/netlogon write list = root browseable = No [homes] browseable = No read only = No create mask = 0700 force create mode = 0700 directory mask = 0750 force directory mode = 0700 security mask = 0777 veto files = /.*/ [pub] comment = Public Directory path = /pub read only = No create mask = 0777 force create mode = 0777 directory mask = 0777 security mask = 0777 force directory mode = 0777 inherit permissions = Yes guest ok = Yes [printers] path = /tmp printable = Yes browseable = No --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages!
Hey all, I found a solution to the first part of my problem, the latter part is still unresolved. Sean Young <iguanadon_terrier@yahoo.com> wrote: I am currently running samba 3.0.3 on Fedora Core 2 (Kernel 2.6.6). The samba server is running as the PDC for the domain, with no other servers and a handful of 98 and XP clients. The problem is that Windows XP clients will not show up in My Network Places or Network Neighborhood. When using UNC names I am able to access the machines, but cannot find them otherwise. I am not even able to see them with net view. All of the 98 clients show up fine. This is a bug in samba 3(Bug 1221 https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1221). This bug was marked for version 3.0.2a, but is still active in 3.0.4. Apparently, if you use apostrophies in the computer description the machine won't show up in the network neighborhood. I Changed the descriptions and now all the XP machines are visible. One other thing, when I browse the entire network, I can see two copies of my domain. The XP clients show one instance of the domain empty and the 98 clients show both with the same computers (the server and the 98 clients) Unfortunately, I have still made no headway on this issue. There seems to be a shadow domain or something, and various machines handle it differently. Some machines show the copy of the domain as an exact duplicate, others show it as empty and still others are told it is unavailable. Is this a browse master issue? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
For info: I have the same issue here (Samba = 3.0.4-1). If I look at my computer properties, computer name. The computer description field is blank and not editable (this is from an admin account). If I check via Computer Management, properties, computer name. The computer description field is set to "Microsoft Windows XP Professional" and is not editable. Alan