[Samba] Re: Server not browseable with 3.0.8

[Andrew Dougherty]

On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Steve Feehan wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 03:40:48PM -0500, Andrew Dougherty wrote:
> > On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Michael Lueck wrote:
> >
> > > Sounds like you have crud left over in your wins file.
> > > Stop the samba services, wack /var/opt/samba/wins.dat and
> > > restart samba.
>
> > Thanks for the suggestion.  Alas, I don't have any /var/opt/samba
> > directory at all (nor any wins.dat entries in /var/run/samba or anywhere
> > else.)
>
> On debian wins.dat is in /var/lib/samba.

Nope, I don't have one there either.  There's no wins.dat file anywhere.
However, this morning, it just started working again.  I now strongly
suspect the problem is somebody else running some competing server on the
same subnet.  I'll have to wait until it fails again and look for the
culprit.  In the meantime, since it's working, I'm not planning on
touching it!

-- 
    Andy Dougherty		doughera at lafayette.edu