No Listing in Network Neighborhood

Aaron Dougherty chicken at garlic.com
Mon Feb 8 01:18:57 GMT 1999


Looks like it was 2 things.

1) I had the wrong workgroup information in my smb.conf
2) I didn't have nmbd running at all. FYI, I only have 1 nmbd running, and
it shows in network neighborhood now.

Thanks for the help.

-Aaron

----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Wood <cwood at wencor.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <samba-ntdom at samba.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 06, 1999 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: No Listing in Network Neighborhood


>On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Aaron Dougherty wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I am relatively new to Samba. I have installed it to Solaris 7.
Everything
>> seems to be working just fine, and I can map my tmp directory by
explicitly
>> stating \\SAMBA_SERVER\TMP, but I can not see the Samba Server in my
Network
>> Neighborhood. Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
>I recently had this battle too.  Things I've heard of that can cause
>this:
>1. "Interfaces =" setting in smb.conf is wrong, or has the wrong
>   subnet mask.
>2. "workgroup = xxx " in smb.conf but on the Win95 machine workgroup is
>   set = yyy.  Change Win95 to xxx and Samba shows up.
>3. nmbd deamon isn't running... you should see 2 nmbd's running, if you
>   only see one, restart nmbd.
>
>Umm. That's all I can think of off the top of my head.
>
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