[Samba] unable to browse samba server with Win98, but it works with WinXP

[Georgi Sotirov]

Are you restart smbd and nmbd after make changes in the smb.conf ?
I have same problem under Fedora C3 and Samba version 3.0.10-1.fc3,
when I start for first time samba with default smb.conf.
(I don't  used samba service before on this computer).
Then I make same changes:
#vi /etc/samba/smb.conf
and expecting that service shares will work without restart the smbd
and nmbd (/etc/init.d/smb restart).
Because
#testparm
parse the shares and parameters of smb.conf without warnings.
I test locally with
#smbclient -L localhost
But shares is not shown in the output, only smbclient "said" that
Samba is running.
After I manually restart the demon smbd and nmbd, then the shares
starts working!!!

I hope this help.

On 4/19/06, Istvan Köpe <istvan.kope at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have samba-3.0.10-1.4E.6 bundled with CentOS 4.3 x86_64 and I can't
> browse it with Win98. I have a very simple setup, Share type, with
> access to everyone.
> If I double-click on the server name from Win98, I have this message:
> "\\server is not accessible.  This device does not exist on the
> network."
> If I type the whole path to the share(ex: \\server\transfer), in
> Win98, it works.
> In WinXP there is no problem.
> In the log of the Win98 client connection I have this:
>
> [2006/04/18 22:52:38, 0] lib/substitute.c:alloc_sub_basic(507)
>   alloc_sub_basic: NULL source string!  This should not happen
> [2006/04/18 22:52:38, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(36)
>   ===============================================================
> [2006/04/18 22:52:38, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(37)
>   INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 11 in pid 2724 (3.0.10-1.4E.6)
>   Please read the appendix Bugs of the Samba HOWTO collection
> [2006/04/18 22:52:38, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(39)
>   ===============================================================
> [2006/04/18 22:52:38, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic2(1504)
>   PANIC: internal error
> [2006/04/18 22:52:38, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic2(1512)
>   BACKTRACE: 14 stack frames:
>    #0 smbd(smb_panic2+0x6e) [0x552ac4d6fe]
>    #1 smbd [0x552ac3ba01]
>    #2 /lib64/tls/libc.so.6 [0x2a96a98380]
>    #3 /lib64/tls/libc.so.6(strlen+0x30) [0x2a96ad9ed0]
>    #4 smbd(push_ascii+0x39) [0x552ac39a89]
>    #5 smbd [0x552ab0f590]
>    #6 smbd(api_reply+0x270) [0x552ab14b60]
>    #7 smbd(reply_trans+0x5e8) [0x552ab0b008]
>    #8 smbd [0x552ab4f691]
>    #9 smbd(process_smb+0x18f) [0x552ab4fa7f]
>    #10 smbd(smbd_process+0x12c) [0x552ab506ec]
>    #11 smbd(main+0x40b) [0x552acbe1db]
>    #12 /lib64/tls/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdb) [0x2a96a864bb]
>    #13 smbd [0x552aaf822a]
>
> Do you have any ideas??
>
> 10x
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