[Samba] My Network Places not finding Samba server

[Frederick C. Damen]

Thanks. I removed the entry for DAMEN from lmhosts and restart smb/nmb and
no change that I can see.

Thanks,

Fred

Kristaps Rāts wrote:

>Having the machine name equal to the workgroup name is a no-no, as far
>as I know.
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>On O , 2006-02-21 at 08:15 -0600, Frederick C. Damen wrote:
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>>I assume I am doing(or not) something extremely simple that is causing
>>my XP boxes to not see my linux(FC4) Samba server in the 'My Network 
>>Places'.
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>>I can access the shares by 'Map Network Drive' and using the IP
>>address(192.168.0.1).
>>I have set the workgroup name 'DAMEN' in the lmhosts file.
>>192.168.0.1 DAMEN
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>>I have set the workgroup in the smb.conf file.
>>        workgroup = damen
>>        netbios name = damen
>>I have configured the Samba server to be the Domain Master Browser
>>        os level = 35
>>   domain master = yes
>>        preferred master = yes
>>   wins support = yes
>>I have configured the [global] to be browseable.
>>        browseable = yes
>>        public = yes
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>>I have set the XP box to be on a home network(not bussiness network) and
>>workgroup to DAMEN.
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>>Any ideas?
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>>Thanks,
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>>Fred
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