Nothing in Network neighborhood

[jlaverdiere]

I have samba running on a rehat 7.1 system and I can get to the windows machine using smbclient . But I cant see the linux server in network neighborhood any idea why the linux samba server is not sowing up in network neighborhood
thanks in advance for yor help

jeff

 

[yesmon]

it might be helpful to make sure you have the same
workgroups on the linux & windoze boxes. hope this helps,
i am learning about this myself.

 

[jlaverdiere]

yes .. each machine using linux have the came workgroup and same cae .. any other ideas??

 

[marsd]

In global settings:
browseable = yes
then testparm to see your settings and make sure there are no errors.
You can make certain shares hiden by browseable = no
in their share specific sections.

Bye.

 

[jlaverdiere]

yes the shares are all browseable.. I wonder if I need to set the local and master browser settings in smb.conf ?? any ideas.. I still do not see the linux server in NN

 

[marsd]

A couple of things:
Try a find or a net view from a win box for your server.
If you can't resolve the name, then try
smbclient -L //ip address -N. Try to connect
via a win box with \\ip address\share.
I find that in large workgroups without a wins server there is a tendency for updates
to be spotty.
You can ping and telnet to the samba server
right?

 

[jlaverdiere]

yes I can telnet and ping both ways.. and I can get to the win box via smbclient no problem finding the linux server via "find" just doesnt show up in network neighborhod
any ideas

 

[marsd]

This sounds like some problems I have encountered in the past-check your smb/nmb log files first for obvious errors.
restart smbd and nmbd:
pidof smbd | xargs kill -hup ; pidof nmbd | xargs kill -hup
:
Then restart a windows machine and see if you can see the
samba box. You should be able to.
If not run nmblookup -M for your master browser and reboot
that machine, or just configure samba to be the master browser.
Local master = yes
preferred master = yes
os level = 99
dump testparm to a file so you can look at your settings:
testparm > dump.txt(\r at break)
You could also run wins from the samba box: it is trivial
to configure and would save you some time on a win98 p2p
net.

Good Luck