Samba Network Browsing after Windows Upgrade

[Herb Lewis]

josh at trutwins.homeip.net wrote:
> 
> I did a few more tests, the following info might also be helpful in
> diagnosing the problem.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Josh
> 
> <snip>
> scully# nmblookup -M XFILES
> querying XFILES on 192.168.0.255
> 192.168.0.3 XFILES<1d>
> 192.168.0.2 XFILES<1d>
> </snip>

the -M option only looks for browse masters so DOGGETT should not
be in this list (neither shouls MULDER for that matter and that is 
your problem).

> 
> 192.168.0.3 is the samba server SCULLY for workgroup XFILES.  192.168.0.2
> is MULDER, but where is DOGGETT?  (192.168.0.5)
> 
> <snip>
> scully# more /usr/local/samba/var/locks/browse.dat
> "XFILES"                  c0001010 "SCULLY"                      "XFILES"
> "SCULLY"                  400d9b03 "Linux Samba 2.2.2"           "XFILES"
> "DOGGETT"                 40462203 "PC"                          "XFILES"
> </snip>
> 
> Where is MULDER?  :)

Since MULDER thinks it is a browse master my guess is that it
never did a name registration by broadcast but did correctly
register with the WINS server.

> 
> <snip>
> scully# more /usr/local/samba/var/locks/wins.dat
> VERSION 1 151235
> "
__MSBROWSE__#01" 1011343224 255.255.255.255 84R
> "DOGGETT#00" 1011243313 192.168.0.5  4R
> "DOGGETT#03" 1011243313 192.168.0.5  4R
> "DOGGETT#20" 1011243313 192.168.0.5  4R
> "MULDER#00" 1011266231 192.168.0.2  4R
> "MULDER#03" 1011266231 192.168.0.2  4R
> "MULDER#20" 1011266231 192.168.0.2  4R
> "SCULLY#00" 1011302693 192.168.0.3 46R
> "SCULLY#03" 1011302693 192.168.0.3 46R
> "SCULLY#20" 1011302693 192.168.0.3 46R
> "SKINNER#03" 1011266231 192.168.0.2  4R
> "XFILES#00" 1011302693 255.255.255.255 c4R
> "XFILES#1b" 1011302693 192.168.0.3 44R
> "XFILES#1e" 1011302693 255.255.255.255 c4R
> </snip>
> 
> This looks ok, I think....
> 
> Also, using smbclient -L MULDER or DOGGETT -N sucessfully lists all of the
> shares on those two Win98 machines.
> 
> Odd.
> 

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Herb Lewis                               Silicon Graphics 
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