[Samba] Not showing up in network listing on Win 8.1

[Rowland Penny]

On 26/10/15 18:26, Thomas Schulz wrote:
> This may not be a Samba problem, but perhaps people here know the answer.
>
> We are installing some Windows 8.1 Pro computers. The servers running Samba
> 4.2.19 and 4.3.0 are not showing up in the Network display. Our domain
> controller is also not showing up. The Windows 7 computers are showing up.
> The domain controller is a Windows 2000 machine. I can manually map network
> drives to the servers runnin Samba.
>
> I wonder if the problem is that the Domain Controller is the master browser
> and it is too old to work correctly with Windows 8.1 machines.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Tom Schulz
> Applied Dynamics Intl.
> schulz at adi.com
>

Ah, you do know that windows 2000 went EOL 5 years ago?

Are you running nmbd on the Samba servers. You say that the windows 7 
machine are showing up, but showing up where? if they only show on the 
windows 7 machines, it may be that the firewall on the win 8.1 machines 
is blocking browsing.

Rowland