[Samba] Odd problems with XP

[Rashkae]

How does your Samba box know about the WINS server? (Unless, of course,
you neglected to post your *complete* smb.conf)

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Dec 19  12:57pm


They hang the man and flog the woman
That steal the goose from off the common,
But let the greater villain loose
That steals the common from the goose.
  --English folk poem, circa 1764








On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Neal Lawson wrote:

I Do have a central WINS server running and the PDC, BDC, the Samba box,
and the XP client know about the wins server


Marian Mlcoch, Ing wrote:

>Your problem is complicated browsing with NT and samba.
>Reason:
>1. Use on your network on all machines and servers only one!! protocol
>TCPIP.
>2. Configure WINS server on NT PDC or BDC machine
>3. In config tcpip on all clients set wins server to created IP.
>4. In all samba server or clients set in smb.conf wins server = IP...
>
>REM If need another protocol as netbeui or ipx on server or clients yuo must
>disable browsing features for this protocols in regedit or confs...
>
>Thats all.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Neal Lawson" <nolawso at ilstu.edu>
>To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 9:33 PM
>Subject: [Samba] Odd problems with XP
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>
>>I have one Samba server with my Raid 5 can on it, and a NT 4 PDC and
>>BDC, and im running samba 2.2.7, for most of my clients browsing the
>>shares is just fine, but on some browsing the shares hangs or takes a
>>long time to return with a result
>>
>>here is my smb.conf file:
>>
>>
>>[global]
>>netbios name = xxxxxx
>>load printers = no
>>         workgroup = XXXXXXX
>>         encrypt passwords = Yes
>>         security = domain
>>         allow trusted domains = yes
>>         password server = XXXXXXXX
>>time server = Yes
>>socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_KEEPALIVE SO_RCVBUF=4096
>>SO_SNDBUF=4096
>>os level = 34
>>name resolve order = wins hosts bcast
>>write raw = yes
>>read raw = yes
>>         hide files =
>>
>>
>>
>/:2eDS_Store/resource.frk/TheFindByContentFolder/TheVolumeSettingsFolder/Des
>ktopFolderDB/Network
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>
>>Trash Folder/resource.frk/.*/
>>oplocks = yes
>>max xmit = 65535
>>level2oplocks = yes
>>dead time = 7
>>getwd cache = yes
>>nt acl support = no
>>
>>
>>[private]
>>comment = Private Storage for %U
>>path = %H/private
>>         create mode = 0600
>>         directory mode = 0700
>>         valid users = %U
>>follow symlinks = yes
>>writeable = yes
>>
>>[public]
>>comment = Public Storage for %U
>>path = %H/public
>>         create mode = 0600
>>         directory mode = 0700
>>         valid users = %U
>>follow symlinks = yes
>>writeable = yes
>>
>>[web]
>>comment = Web root for %U
>>path = %H/web
>>
>>
>>
>>Thanks for any help
>>
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