Browsing from other workgroup problem

Steve Litt slitt at troubleshooters.com
Thu Feb 17 17:15:50 GMT 2000


I think you need a DMB and LMB. Assuming you have no NT servers in your
network, try these in [global]:

domain master=yes
preferred master=yes
local master=yes
os level=65

Note that if your other workgroups are on separate subnets, this gets
trickier, involving WINS, etc.

Steve Litt

At 09:09 PM 02/16/2000 +1100, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>can anybody explain why win9x (or i think also NT) from other workgoup 
>than samba can not see shares through network neighbourhood? Guest account 
>exists and when i win9x reconnect to same workgroup everything is o.k. 
>Else win client wants password to IPC$.
>
>Same problem from one NT works to other. I'm logged in on local and i can 
>not see shares from other NT works. After i fill dialog for login -> 
>access denied. But i gave that user to user list for this share.
>
>What's wrong? I can not understand this M$ "great ideas"! When i know 
>username and password, so i'm THAT user. Why does not this work as 
>smbclient???
>
>madness is coming...
>O.H.
>



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