[Samba] Samba / Windows workgroup master browser problem

[richard]

Hi, I think this   might be the clue?
***send_netbios_packet: send_packet() to IP 128.125.255.255 port 137
failed
regards,
Richard Coates.

On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 23:46, Rich Pinder wrote:
> I admit theres a LOT about the windows networking I dont understand - 
> and even though this may NOT be a SAMBA issue per se, I thought I'd post 
> it here.
> 
> Have a 400gb samba server thats been working well (am upgrading to 
> current patches today, btw).
> I've got 3 Win2k workstations, on two subnets, that have drives mapped, 
> and connect every morning on startup just fine.  All the machines belong 
> to one workgroup.
> 
> The way I have in the past added machines was to do a 'search' for the 
> computer from the client machine.  After it finds the machine, I log in, 
> and make the connection persistent for future logins.
> 
> But recently I can't locate the samba server doing this search. 
> 
> These messages in the samba log file are suspicious - it looks like no 
> machine is acting like a local browser for the subnet  (??):
> 
> [2003/04/10 04:01:08, 0] nmbd/nmbd_packets.c:send_netbios_packet(171)
>   send_netbios_packet: send_packet() to IP 128.125.255.255 port 137 failed
> [2003/04/10 04:01:08, 0] nmbd/nmbd_namequery.c:query_name(229)
>   query_name: Failed to send packet trying to query name TEACHERS<1d>
> [2003/04/10 04:02:00, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:sig_hup(92)
>   Got SIGHUP dumping debug info.
> [2003/04/10 04:02:00, 0] nmbd/nmbd_workgroupdb.c:dump_workgroups(292)
>   dump_workgroups()
>    dump workgroup on subnet  128.125.61.148: netmask=    255.255.0.0:
>         TEACHERS(1) current master browser = UNKNOWN
>                 ASDFZXCV 40019a03 (California Teachers Study)
> 
> If anyone has a clue on this, I'd apreciate it !  I tried the following 
> mods to my conf file, thinking it would force Samba to help out with 
> defining the workgroup, but no luck:
> 
> 
> os level = 34
> local master = yes
> remote announce = 128.125.61.255/SIMPLE 128.125.152.255/SIMPLE
> 
> 
> Ok..thanks for the help
> 
> Rich Pinder
> USC School of Medicine
> 
>