[Samba] New installation does not show on network

[durwin at mgtsciences.com]

Thank you, that was it.  I had always noticed in earlier versions of 
Fedora (samba) that nmbd was restarted every time smb was.  So I had 
forgotten about it.  I also did not know what it was for and till now, 
never looked at the man pages on it.


Durwin


"John Drescher" <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote on 08/07/2007 02:19:46 PM:

> 

> On 8/7/07, durwin at mgtsciences.com <durwin at mgtsciences.com> wrote: 
> Ever since installing Fedora 7, samba stopped showing the machine on the
> network.  I can connect to it by entering the machine name (\\lazarus), 
> but it will not show itself from a Windows machine.  I tried a command
> suggested to test if it was listening and this is what I got;
> 
> $ smbclient -L localhost -U%
> Domain=[LAZARUS] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.25b-2.fc7 ]
> 
>         Sharename       Type      Comment
>         ---------       ----      -------
>         docs            Disk
>         IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (Samba Server Version
> 3.0.25b-2.fc7)
> Domain=[LAZARUS] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.25b-2.fc7]
> 
>         Server               Comment
>         ---------            -------
> 
>         Workgroup            Master
>         ---------            -------
> 
> 
> Notice there is nothing shown under 'Server', 'Comment', 'Workgroup', or 

> 'Master'.  Does this suggest anything?  In this case, the smb.conf was
> directly from samba-guide.pdf.
> 
> # Global Parameters
> [global]
> workgroup = MIDEARTH
> security = SHARE
> [Plans]
> path = /plans 
> read only = Yes
> guest ok = Yes
> 
> Is nmbd running? 
> 
> John