nmbd question

[Gerry Maddock]

I got it to finally work by erasing all of the logs and re HUP'ing smbd and
nmbd, and everything showed right back up as soon as everyone logged off and
logged back on.

Hitesh Talati wrote:

> 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-----------------|
> >
> >