Samba Network Browsing after Windows Upgrade

[Herb Lewis]

Well, Mulder is showing up as a local master browser (the <1d> entry),
so that means it is not seeing Scully as the browse master. My guess 
would be that you have NetBUI or IPX enabled on that machine.

josh at trutwins.homeip.net wrote:
> 
> 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
> 

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Herb Lewis                               Silicon Graphics 
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