[Samba] XP Clients missing in my network places

[Sean Young]

Hey all,
 
I found a solution to the first part of my problem, the latter part is still unresolved. 

Sean Young <iguanadon_terrier at yahoo.com> wrote:

I am currently running samba 3.0.3 on Fedora Core 2 (Kernel 2.6.6). The
samba server is running as the PDC for the domain, with no other servers and
a handful of 98 and XP clients. The problem is that Windows XP clients will
not show up in My Network Places or Network Neighborhood.

When using UNC names I am able to access the machines, but cannot find them
otherwise. I am not even able to see them with net view. All of the 98
clients show up fine.

This is a bug in samba 3(Bug 1221 https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1221). This bug was marked for version 3.0.2a, but is still active in 3.0.4.  Apparently, if you use apostrophies in the computer description the machine won't show up in the network neighborhood. I Changed the descriptions and now all the XP machines are visible.


One other thing, when I browse the entire network, I can see two copies of my domain. The XP clients show one instance of the domain empty and the 98 clients show both with the same computers (the server and the 98 clients)

Unfortunately, I have still made no headway on this issue.  There seems to be a shadow domain or something, and various machines handle it differently.  Some machines show the copy of the domain as an exact duplicate, others show it as empty and still others are told it is unavailable. Is this a browse master issue?  





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