Tom Emerson wrote:
On Tuesday 07 January 2003 11:05 am, FX Fraipont wrote: [...]
BUT ! I think I've found the culprit.
After editing smb.conf, I ran testparm, and got "Loaded services file OK" and an invitation to see the dump of my services definition, I pressed enter, and guess what I saw?
I think you're on to something -- did you ALSO happen to notice...
# Global parameters [global] server string = Samba Server
I did not realize this directly, because yesterday I rewrote a minimal smb.conf file. but then, Yippie, /etc/samba/smb.conf is indeed the real one !!!! and this is the log I now get [2003/01/07 20:45:17, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(794) Netbios nameserver version 2.2.5-SuSE started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1994-2002 [2003/01/07 20:45:22, 0] nmbd/nmbd_responserecordsdb.c:find_response_record(235) find_response_record: response packet id 10942 received with no matching recor d. [2003/01/07 20:45:22, 0] nmbd/nmbd_responserecordsdb.c:find_response_record(235) find_response_record: response packet id 10943 received with no matching recor d. [2003/01/07 20:45:41, 0] nmbd/nmbd_become_lmb.c:become_local_master_stage2(404) ***** Samba name server VERTIGO is now a local master browser for workgroup WORKGROU P on subnet 192.168.0.99 ***** log.nmbd lines 1-13/13 (END) I know you will appreciate the sheer beauty of it :-) and you can see the result on www.nibz.org/gif/samba.jpg So you are a remarkable sleuth indeed. Thank you a thousand times for bearing with me, teaching me the mysteries of ps aux |grep mbd, and the like. I promise I'll sing your praise on my blog tomorrow, but in the meantime, you can watch the result of days of experiments on www.nibz.org/gif/samba.jpg. Thanks again fx PS. For God's sake, why are there TWo smb.conf files? This is utterly confusing.... -- ______________________ Courtesy of SuSE Linux nibz.org