Hi,
I as far as I know this is a WinBlows issue and has absolutely nothing to do with Linux or Samba.
WinBlows Browsing is not the most stable on any platform. I have similar issues at home after a reinstall and after a couple of days all of a sudden my PC's appear in the Network Neighbourhood.
I normally switch Browse Mastering Off on the WinBlows Machines.
I did get some insight on this from the samba list. One of my Windows machines is trying to become the master browser, even though samba should be winning the election with os level = 65 in smb.conf. How do you set Browse Mastering Off on a Windows 98 machine? Josh
On Monday 14 January 2002 16:19, josh@trutwins.homeip.net wrote:
Hello,
The Samba list is probably a better place for this post, but I have enough e-mail traffic to filter already so I thought I would try SLE since there seems to be a wealth of Samba gurus on this list.
I have 3 PC's at home running various OS's.
Scully - SuSE 7.3 (Samba, DNS, e-mail, apache) Mulder - Win 2000 laptop Doggett - Win 98 PC
With this configuration running samba 2.2.2 I was able to get network browsing working. All three machines appeared in each PC's network neighborhood.
Of course though, Mulder (windows 2000) started locking up and giving me numerous problems. So I rebuilt it with Windows 98 which for some reason seems to be the most "stable" windows I have tried.
The network settings for for the two Win98 machines (Mulder and Doggett) are EXACTLY the same, but now network browsing is not working as well. For Doggett, Scully and Doggett show up in the Network Neighborhood. For Mulder, only Mulder shows up in the Network Neighborhood. Fortunately, I can still access all shares using Map Network Drive, but I would like to fix the browsing capability as it is easier to use.
I checked the samba logs and there is nothing exciting to report from them. Everything worked fine until I rebuilt the laptop. Are there any samba cache files that need to be removed? I have restarted samba, rebooted the server, rebooted the clients, no change. I ran through all the steps in DIAGNOSIS.txt again, everything worked ok.
Here is a snip from my smb.conf: (samba is running on 192.168.0.3)
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks,
Josh
[global] netbios name = scully workgroup = XFILES server string = Linux Samba %v interfaces = 192.168.0.3 127.0.0.1 bind interfaces only = Yes security = user username map = /etc/samba/smbusers password level = 8 encrypt passwords = yes obey pam restrictions = yes pam password change = yes smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd os level = 65 lm announce = True dns proxy = No valid users = skinner root nobody hosts allow = 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.3 192.168.0.4 192.168.0.5 127.0.0.1 wins support = yes name resolve order = wins lmhosts hosts bcast dns proxy = yes local master = yes preferred master = yes domain master = yes browsable = yes guest ok = yes guest account = nobody load printers = yes
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