Paul Galbraith
2005-Feb-21 04:14 UTC
[Samba] smbclient doesn't get browse list from XP master browser
I've spent hours searching the archives and online documentation, but
still haven't been able to find the answer to my browse problem; I hope
someone here can help. I'm trying to get smbclient to show the browse
list from a windows xp machine that's the master browser on my subnet.
I have a very simple home network (single subnet). My workgroup is
'arda'. My windows xp machine is 'a7v333' and has been elected
as the
master browser (exactly as I want). From my linux machine, I use
nmblookup like this:
nmblookup -M -S arda
and I get this result, showing my XP machine as the master browser:
querying arda on 192.168.3.255
192.168.3.100 arda<1d>
Looking up status of 192.168.3.100
A7V333 <00> - B <ACTIVE>
ARDA <00> - <GROUP> B <ACTIVE>
A7V333 <20> - B <ACTIVE>
ARDA <1e> - <GROUP> B <ACTIVE>
ARDA <1d> - B <ACTIVE>
..__MSBROWSE__. <01> - <GROUP> B <ACTIVE>
MAC Address = 00-04-76-E5-A2-EB
then I run smbclient (3.0.10):
smbclient -N -L a7v333
and this is the result:
Domain=[A7V333] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
IPC$ IPC Remote IPC
print$ Disk Printer Drivers
SharedDocs Disk
software Disk
Printer Printer hp photosmart P1100 series
Domain=[A7V333] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
Server Comment
--------- -------
Workgroup Master
--------- -------
Another windows machine on the subnet can browse through "network
neighbourhood", so I'm surprised that smbclient doesn't get the
browse
list. Does anyone know why this could be?
Also, I'm surprised to see the computer name showing up where the domain
(workgroup?) should be shown. (The workgroup / computer name are
correctly configured as "arda" / "a7v333".)
Paul
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