[Samba] Need Help Getting Windows XP To Use Samba Properly

[Hodges, Robert CTR USAF AFMC 520 SMXS/MXDEC]

Jeremy,

This makes sense, I'll try it.  Excellent idea.

I'm new to Samba, so how do I get it to run in debug mode and do the
logging option you mentioned?

Sorry to sound so juvenile, my experience with Samba is in reverse -
getting Linux boxes to use Windows servers.

Bob



-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Allison [mailto:jra at samba.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 10:33 AM
To: Hodges, Robert CTR USAF AFMC 520 SMXS/MXDEC
Cc: tms3 at tms3.com; samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] Need Help Getting Windows XP To Use Samba Properly

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:22:46AM -0700, Hodges, Robert CTR USAF AFMC
520 SMXS/MXDEC wrote:
> TMS3,
> 
> Thanks for joining in, really appreciate it.
> 
> I'm trying to keep it all straight, I'm relatively new to Samba (but
learning quickly).
> 
> What I now know:
> 
> 1.  Sniffer on XP box reveals that XP does see the broadcasts from
Samba. 
> 
> 2.  The Microsoft support tool/command "Browstat status" shows that XP
does recognize Samba as the server (if Computer Browser service
disabled, otherwise XP may/may not elect itself as the master -
unpredictable), but also shows that XP is unable to pull down the browse
list form the Samba box.  

This is the key. Separate out the logs by incoming client name,
run smbd at debug level 10 and then look in the log.<xp client name>
to see if it's trying to fetch the browse list, and if so why
it goes wrong.

Jeremy.