nmbd question

[Hitesh Talati]

Hi,

Even I'm facing a similar problem with one of our Samba servers. Actually,
we have a  mixed and very well WAN routed environment of NT, Free BSD and
Solaris machines running on our network, with Windows NT running as a PDC
and few BDC's. The Samba is running on many Free BSD's so that they could
show up in Network neighbourhood. It so happened that after bringing a new
PDC on the network, all the samba machines lost connectivity with the
network. But they started working after restarting the nmbd.
Big Problem is with one of the Sun OS 5.6 running Samba 1.9.18 on it. I have
tried many things but it just does  not show up in ntwk nbhd. I can access
it if I do a "find computers" bit it just does not show up in Network
Neighbourhood. Can someone please help? How can I make that machine show
itself again in Network Neighbourhood?

Thanks


> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-ntdom-admin at us5.samba.org
> [mailto:samba-ntdom-admin at us5.samba.org]On Behalf Of Buchan Milne
> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 12:14 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM
> Subject: Fwd: nmbd question
>
>
>
>
> Buchan Milne wrote:
> >
> > I am not sure if it would work to make your PDC a wins server, and point
> > all the machines at the wins server. Also make sure you aren't running
> > NETBEUI.
> >
> > Buchan
> >
> > Gerry Maddock wrote:
> > >
> > > Ok, I have samba running as a PDC, file and print server.
> With Samba as
> > > the PDC, I was able to browse over routed networks to our systems at
> > > branch offices. Things are working great, but I had to restart the
> > > server this morning and now when I search network neighborhood, I can
> > > only see a few sys this is even with a screen refresh. Most computers
> > > are not showing up. If I really want to access a sys that I
> cannot see,
> > > I can do a "find computer" and it shows up. This is not a big
> deal, b/c
> > > after a day or two all systems will eventually show up again. My
> > > question is: Is there anyway I can speed this up??? In /etc/smb.con I
> > > have the os level as 64 to win the election. I have HUP'd nmbd a few
> > > times, but no luck.
> >
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> Buchan Milne                Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager
> Cellphone                                           +27824722231
> email                               mailto:bgmilne at ing.sun.ac.za
> Centre for Automotive Engineering           http://www.cae.co.za
> South Africas first satellite:        http://sunsat.ee.sun.ac.za
> Control Models                          http://www.control.co.za
> |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------|
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