[Samba] Cannot see server in win Neighborhood (again)

Matias Morawicki matiasmorawicki at gmail.com
Fri Dec 18 12:01:42 MST 2009


2009/12/18 Gaiseric Vandal <gaiseric.vandal at gmail.com>

> On 12/18/09 10:15, Matias Morawicki wrote:
>
>> Hello u all, sorry to bring this issue back again, but I´ve been
>> searching and trying all the advices suggested in previous posts and I
>> still can´t see the samba server in the win network neighborhood.
>>
>> I can see the samba shares from win via net view \\servername
>>
>> but if I issue a plain "net view" samba won´t show up. only the win
>> machines, the same i can see on the Neighborhood...
>>
>> I´ve tried stopping iptables, different smb.conf from the simple
>> examples of t first chapters of samba by example,  to plenty of
>> options... that´s why I´m not including my smb.conf, because I´ve
>> tried many variations, always with the same results. I even tried a
>> working smb.conf from another linux box which was showing in win
>> Neighborhood...
>>
>> and when I select local master = no  Samba would stay without master!
>> I issue smbclient -L servername -U% and the master section remains empty.
>>
>> It´s like samba is not being able to "talk" to the rest of the
>> workgroup. (of course they are all in the same workgroup)
>>
>> Btw, the server is a Centos 5.3, with samba 3.2.15 (it also happened
>> with the default samba, so I´ve upgraded just in case...)
>>
>> I hope someone can point me some directions...
>>
>> thanks in advance!!
>>
>> Matias
>>
>>
> Are you using a WINS server-  I find that makes a lot of these issues go
> away.    My guess is that your samba machines and windows machines are
> talking to different net bios browser masters (I use WINS servers to avoid
> having to figure out this stuff.)
>
>
> I have, at home, run in to this same issue with Windows machines (workgroup
> not domain, and no samba servers involved) not seeing each other in network
> neighborhood.     Does turning off the XP firewall (assuming that you are
> using XP Pro) make a difference?
>
> Thanx for the reply Gaiseric!

yes, I´m using "wins support = yes" and I´ve set the DHCP to set the clients
to use the samba server as wins server.I´ve checked the win clients and they
get the correct conf.

I haven´t tried turning off the XP firewall, but when I tried a basic samba
configuration in a ubuntu server in another box just to test, they were able
to see it in the neigbohood... so I guess the issue is on the Centos side. I
tried the same smb.conf from that working ubuntu-samba and didn´t make it on
the Centos...

thanks again!

Matias


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