On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Ben Frame wrote: > I just got Samba installed and it seems to be working fine. But it > doesn't always show up in my Network Neighborhood under Win95. Both the > Debian machine and Win95 machine are on the same subnet and both are in > a workgroup called "linux." I've made several changes to my smb.conf > file, and consequently restarted the debian machine a few times. > Sometimes it shows up in Network Neighborhood, and sometimes it > doesn't. Sometimes it will show up later, but not immediately. > > So my question is, what makes it show up (or not) in Network > Neighborhood? > > I can see the Debian machine if I do a search for it with Win95 > (start/find/computer/name). And for now I've just placed a shortcut to > it on my desktop to keep from having to search every time.
In a mixed NT/Linux environment, I found that using a WINS server (and configuring it into smb.conf) makes my Linux servers show up immediately for all TCP/IP-ready Windoze boxen. Of course, if (when - it was NT) the WINS box crashes and is rebooted, the Linux servers aren't visible until samba is restarted. I'd bet in a non-NT environment, merely enabling wins support in smb.conf and configuring said WINS server into Winders should at least help the visibility of the server. YMMV. Pete -- Peter J. Templin, Jr. Systems and Networks Administrator Jlink Internet Services 1000 S. Market St. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bloomsburg, PA 17815 (717)389-6400
