samba, win98, and browse list problem.

[David Forrest]

Dave, 
  Did you find any resolution?

I am having a similar problem: WinNTs and Win98 on the network
neighborhood, and they can connect to, but not see the samba 2.0.6
server.

Is there a way to make nmblookup act like the network neighborhood
browser?  

I tried using the code below to scan my subnet looking for names, and
noticed different status results for the nodes, but only some of the names
show up under SE-NTNET on our boxes.  

On the Windows side our NT admin is having problems making 'se-ntserver'
show up, and I would like to make the samba server 'mug' show up on the
boxes.  Everyone seems to be able to connect and use 'net view ...', but
these GUI resource lists (windows explorer/network neighborhood under
win98 and WinNT) don't seem to work well.  This seems like a different
problem than 'BROWSING.txt' covers, since 'net view \\mug' works.

Dave
-- 
 Dave Forrest                                dforrest at virginia.edu
 (804)296-7283h 924-3954w      http://mug.sys.virginia.edu/~drf5n/



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# bash nmblookup loop for scanning a subnet -- 
# requires `series 1 254` to return a list of numbers
for NODE in `series 1 254`
do nmblookup -T -S '*' -U 128.143.6.$NODE >>log& 
done
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and selected portions of 'log' shows:

se-ntserver.sys.Virginia.EDU, 128.143.6.42 *<00>
Looking up status of 128.143.6.42
received 13 names
        SE-NTSERVER     <00> -         M <ACTIVE> 
        SE-NTNET        <00> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE> 
        SE-NTSERVER     <20> -         M <ACTIVE> 
        SE-NTNET        <1c> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE> 
        SE-NTNET        <1b> -         M <ACTIVE> 
        SE-NTSERVER     <03> -         M <ACTIVE> 
        INet~Services   <1c> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE> 
        IS~SE-NTSERVER  <00> -         M <ACTIVE> 
        SE-NTSERVER     <6a> -         M <ACTIVE> 
        SE-NTSERVER     <be> -         M <ACTIVE> 
        SE-NTSERVER     <6b> -         M <ACTIVE> 
        SE-NTSERVER     <87> -         M <ACTIVE> 
        HAL9K           <03> -         M <CONFLICT> <ACTIVE> 
num_good_sends=0 num_good_receives=0
Looking up status of 128.143.6.214
received 6 names
        SMITC           <00> -         B <ACTIVE> 
        SE-NTNET        <00> - <GROUP> B <ACTIVE> 
        SMITC           <03> -         B <ACTIVE> 
        SMITC           <20> -         B <ACTIVE> 
        SE-NTNET        <1e> - <GROUP> B <ACTIVE> 
        SMITC           <87> -         B <ACTIVE> 
num_good_sends=0 num_good_receives=0

Looking up status of 128.143.6.223
received 6 names
        GRAD-1B         <00> -         M <ACTIVE> 
        SE-NTNET        <00> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE> 
        GRAD-1B         <03> -         M <ACTIVE> 
        GRAD-1B         <20> -         M <ACTIVE> 
        SE-NTNET        <1e> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE> 
        SMO3B           <03> -         M <ACTIVE> 
num_good_sends=0 num_good_receives=0

Looking up status of 128.143.6.251
received 7 names
        MUG             <00> -         B <ACTIVE> 
        MUG             <03> -         B <ACTIVE> 
        MUG             <20> -         B <ACTIVE> 
        ..__MSBROWSE__. <01> - <GROUP> B <ACTIVE> 
        SE-NTNET        <00> - <GROUP> B <ACTIVE> 
        SE-NTNET        <1d> -         B <ACTIVE> 
        SE-NTNET        <1e> - <GROUP> B <ACTIVE> 
num_good_sends=0 num_good_receives=0