[Samba] List windows clients/machines in network list (win 7)

[Marcio Oli]

      Another important information is that I already allowed the windows
firewall rules (network discovery rules).
      Anybody already passed by these situations?

Thanks,
Marcio Oliveira.

2012/10/10 Marcio Oli <marcio.oli.df at gmail.com>

> People,
>
>
>      some of the machines of my network aren't been listed in (Windows
> Explorer - Network icon).
>      I made a research and I found the following:
> - try to activate some services:
>     SSDP Discovery;
>     UPnP Device Host;
>     Function Discovery Resource Publication.
>
> Note: this situation happens with machines that were joined to the domain
> and with others that weren't added to domain yet.
> I would like to see every windows clients listed in Network icon. I
> activated these services, but it keeps not working.
>
>
> I think my samba DCs are OK, less the following log message, that I'm not
> sure if it's normal:
>
> 1. [2012/10/10 14:40:52.257211,  0]
> nmbd/nmbd_workgroupdb.c:281(dump_workgroups)
> 2.  dump_workgroups()
> 3.   dump workgroup on subnet      10.0.5.5: netmask=  255.255.248.0:
> 4.        WORKGROUP(2) current master browser = UNKNOWN
> 5.        NetworkDomain (1) current master browser = PDC 1
> 6.                PDC1 40849b3b (PDC 1 )
> 7.                BDC1 40809b3b (BDC 1 )
> ...
>
> 8.  [2012/10/10 14:40:52.257344,  0]
> nmbd/nmbd_workgroupdb.c:281(dump_workgroups)
> 9.    dump_workgroups()
> 10.   dump workgroup on subnet  UNICAST_SUBNET: netmask=     10.0.5.5:
> 11.        NetworkDomain (1) current master browser = UNKNOWN
> 12.                PDC1 40819b3b (PDC 1 )
>
> Maybe there is a problem between lines 5 and 11 at above lines. But I
> don't understand the syntax of this log.
> Is my network without a current master browser?
> Anybody could help me with these 2 troubles?
>
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Marcio Oliveira.
>
>


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Marcio Oliveira.
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