[Samba] Shares Work, Browsing Doesn't
Hal Vaughan
hal at thresholddigital.com
Mon Oct 23 08:11:54 GMT 2006
On Monday 23 October 2006 03:20, you wrote:
> > I just want Windows users to see each Samba server and be able to
> > click through to find the shares and click on the shares to open
> > them.
>
> Having servers disappear from the browse list is normally related to
> the nameserver daemon. Are you running nmbd as well as smbd? smbd
> provides the files, nmbd provides the list of computers.
It's running. I forgot to give full info, but this is on Debian Sarge
and installed with aptitude, so it automatically set it up to use smbd
and nmbd.
> Given that nmbd also uses broadcasts, you might want to make sure
> that broadcasts are definitely reaching all the PCs.
>
> > browseable = yes
> > guest ok = true
Okay, they're gone.
> These two are only supposed to go into a share definition, I'd remove
> them from the main config file just in case.
>
> > domain master = Yes
Removed as well, still left in
local master = yes
preferred master = yes
> I'd also disable this if you don't want domain logons - I wouldn't be
> surprised if this does funny things with WINS and affects browsing on
> client PCs.
>
> The rest of your config looks fine. I'd make sure nmbd is running,
> and then look at network issues to make sure broadcasts are reaching
> the clients.
Double checked with ps -ax. It's running/
> If your network is at 192.168.0.0/24 you can "ping 192.168.0.255" to
> send a broadcast packet. In theory you should get replies from many
> PCs, but you may only get responses from Linux PCs, I don't think
> Windows replies to a broadcast ping. Either way at least one
> response from a different PC should indicate broadcasts are working.
I got responses on a broadcast ping from several computers.
> If you have another Linux PC you can also try using "nmblookup" to
> see if Linux can get a list of names too.
Tried that. Tried:
nmblookup -M server
and I got:
querying server on 172.16.7.255
name_query failed to find name server#1d
(That's a 1d, as in ONE-d, not an "ell".)
I also restarted after the config changes, with no effect.
Thanks for the suggestions!
Hal
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