win95 machine not seeing samba server

[dschaible at obiwan.balmar.com]

Hi again,

One more thing I noticed:

When doing an "nbtstat -a <netbios-name>" the machines in question can
resolve the name, but the mac address of the server shows as:

MAC Address = 00-00-00-00-00-00

and a nbtstat -c shows the name as registered, yet a find computer search
dosen't find the computer.

Thanks again,
DS

On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 dschaible at obiwan.balmar.com wrote:

> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 13:52:02 -0500
> From: dschaible at obiwan.balmar.com
> To: samba at us5.samba.org
> Subject: win95 machine not seeing samba server 
> 
> Greetings lists,
> 
> I have one samba server on a network, running linux kernel 2.2.18 and
> samba 2.0.3  This server shares it's cdrom and a printer to a workgroup
> called IT.  There are five win95 machines successfully printing and using
> the cdrom with no problems.  I have two machines that cannot see the samba
> server at all, both running win95.  All machines are identical in hardware
> and installed with the same image using DriveImage, so configurations are
> 100% identical.
> 
> On all machines, there is no browse list for the workgroup, but they still
> connect fine using the UNC \\machine\share and \\machine\printer
> except on these two machines where I get "The computer or sharename could
> not be found.  Make sure you typed it correctly, and try again." - The
> friendly Windows error message.  Nothing in the log files on the Samba
> server appear for these attempts.
> 
> I have tried installing Netbui on the affected machines, and I have
> enabled netbios via tcp on them as well.  On of the machines is on the
> same hub as the samba server too.
> 
> I am at a loss as to how to troubleshoot from here, any thoughts are
> appreciated!!
> 
> TIA
> DS
> 
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