[Samba] I still don't understand it-- what is the relation between cause and effect?

[Scott Lovenberg]

joop gerritse wrote:
> I have posted more messages, essentially to the same effect... had quite a few 
> good answers, but somehow I seem to be missing something ... :-(
>
> Well, I told you already about the workgroup DAARO, which refused to show 
> up... I got some suggestions, and, indeed, there it was! I could even log in 
> to it.
>
> And then, next morning, I started up my test network, ... no DAARO. However, 
> after a restart of samba (/etc/rc.d/rc.samba restart) it appeared again. 
> Without any changes in teh config. However, although I saw DAARO, clicking on 
> it gave me an error message (something like "device does not exist" in 
> Dutch). On the other hand, after restarting samba again, still without any 
> changes, I could suddenly log in to the domain.
>
> Well, this is not the clear relation between cause and effect which I prefer. 
> Of course it is unavoidable once you get involved in a Microsoft mess... .
>
> I think it is time to become somewhat more fundamental(ist). I mean, if I ever 
> want to find out what's going on, I will probably have to understand what 
> these lousy sloppy Microsoft protocols really do. And of course, being closed 
> source, this won't be trivial.
>
> Can anyone point out some documents that give information on the internals of 
> MS networking protocols? I think there are some around, but I haven't located 
> them yet...
>
>   
I think you said you were using Windows 98, correct?  IIRC (from my 
childhood hacking) Windows 98 takes up to 15 minutes to 'see' the 
network.  I think it was a problem with netbui.  To test this theory, 
you could try explicitly putting DAARO in the machines LMHOSTS file.