Samba Network Browsing after Windows Upgrade

[josh at trutwins.homeip.net]

I did a few more tests, the following info might also be helpful in
diagnosing the problem.

Thanks,

Josh

<snip>
scully# nmblookup -M XFILES
querying XFILES on 192.168.0.255
192.168.0.3 XFILES<1d>
192.168.0.2 XFILES<1d>
</snip>

192.168.0.3 is the samba server SCULLY for workgroup XFILES.  192.168.0.2
is MULDER, but where is DOGGETT?  (192.168.0.5)

<snip>
scully# more /usr/local/samba/var/locks/browse.dat
"XFILES"                  c0001010 "SCULLY"                      "XFILES"
"SCULLY"                  400d9b03 "Linux Samba 2.2.2"           "XFILES"
"DOGGETT"                 40462203 "PC"                          "XFILES"
</snip>

Where is MULDER?  :)

<snip>
scully# more /usr/local/samba/var/locks/wins.dat
VERSION 1 151235
"
__MSBROWSE__#01" 1011343224 255.255.255.255 84R
"DOGGETT#00" 1011243313 192.168.0.5  4R
"DOGGETT#03" 1011243313 192.168.0.5  4R
"DOGGETT#20" 1011243313 192.168.0.5  4R
"MULDER#00" 1011266231 192.168.0.2  4R
"MULDER#03" 1011266231 192.168.0.2  4R
"MULDER#20" 1011266231 192.168.0.2  4R
"SCULLY#00" 1011302693 192.168.0.3 46R
"SCULLY#03" 1011302693 192.168.0.3 46R
"SCULLY#20" 1011302693 192.168.0.3 46R
"SKINNER#03" 1011266231 192.168.0.2  4R
"XFILES#00" 1011302693 255.255.255.255 c4R
"XFILES#1b" 1011302693 192.168.0.3 44R
"XFILES#1e" 1011302693 255.255.255.255 c4R
</snip>

This looks ok, I think....

Also, using smbclient -L MULDER or DOGGETT -N sucessfully lists all of the
shares on those two Win98 machines.

Odd.


> Hello list,
>
> I have a minor annoyance with network browsing running samba 2.2.2.
>
> I have 3 PC's at home running various OS's.  At one time the OS's were
> as follows:
>
> Scully - SuSE Linux 7.3 (Samba, djbdns, qmail, apache)
> Mulder - Win 2000 laptop
> Doggett - Win 98 PC
>
> With this configuration running samba 2.2.2 I was able to get network
> browsing working perfectly.  All three machines appeared in everyone's
> network neighborhood.
>
> Of course though, Mulder (windows 2000) started locking up and gave me
> numerous problems.  So I rebuilt it with Windows 98 which for some
> reason seems to be the most "stable" windows I have tried.
>
> The network settings for for the two Win98 machines (Mulder and
> Doggett) are EXACTLY the same (DNS, WINS, etc), but now network
> browsing is not working as well.  For Doggett, only Scully and Doggett
> show up in the Network Neighborhood.   For Mulder, only Mulder shows up
> in the Network Neighborhood.  Fortunately,  I still access all shares
> using Map Network Drive, but I would like to fix the browsing
> capability as it is easier to use.
>
> I checked the samba logs and there is nothing exciting to report from
> them.  Everything worked fine until I rebuilt the laptop.  Are there
> any samba cache files that need to be removed?  I have restarted samba,
> rebooted the server, rebooted the clients, no change.  I ran through
> all the steps in DIAGNOSIS.txt again, everything worked ok.  The only
> thing that might help is that nmblookup -A has different results:
>
> scully# nmblookup -A doggett
> Looking up status of 192.168.0.5
>        DOGGETT         <00> -         M <ACTIVE>
>        XFILES          <00> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE>
>        DOGGETT         <03> -         M <ACTIVE>
>        DOGGETT         <20> -         M <ACTIVE>
>        XFILES          <1e> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE>
>        SKINNER         <03> -         M <ACTIVE>
>
> scully# nmblookup -A mulder
> Looking up status of 192.168.0.2
>        MULDER          <00> -         M <ACTIVE>
>        XFILES          <00> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE>
>        MULDER          <03> -         M <ACTIVE>
>        MULDER          <20> -         M <ACTIVE>
>        XFILES          <1e> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE>
>        SKINNER         <03> -         M <ACTIVE>
>        XFILES          <1d> -         M <ACTIVE>
>        ..__MSBROWSE__. <01> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE>
>
> Should DOGGETT also have a __MSBROWSE__ and a XFILES <1d> entry?
>
> Here is a snip from my smb.conf: (samba is running on 192.168.0.3)
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.  Thanks,
>
> Josh
>
> [global]
> 	netbios name = scully
> 	workgroup = XFILES
> 	server string = Linux Samba %v
> 	interfaces = 192.168.0.3 127.0.0.1
> 	bind interfaces only = Yes
> 	security = user
> 	username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
> 	password level = 8
> 	encrypt passwords = yes
> 	obey pam restrictions = yes
> 	pam password change = yes
> 	smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
> 	os level = 65
> 	lm announce = True
> 	dns proxy = No
> 	valid users = skinner root nobody
> 	hosts allow = 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.3 192.168.0.4 192.168.0.5
> 127.0.0.1
> 	wins support = yes
> 	name resolve order = wins lmhosts hosts bcast
> 	dns proxy = yes
> 	local master = yes
> 	preferred master = yes
> 	domain master = yes
> 	browsable = yes
> 	guest ok = yes
> 	guest account = nobody
> 	load printers = yes
>
>
>
>
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