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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