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.
Another user gave you the '15 minutes' suggestion which I have found works on my box. > So my question is, what makes it show up (or not) in Network > Neighborhood? read BROWSING.txt which comes with SAMBA for a technical explanation. There are many things which can cause it to show up/not show up in nethood. Another user gave you the suggestion of using your SAMBA server as a WINS server. This also worked for me when I was setting up SAMBA, however, this solution was unacceptable for my purposes (as was the '15 minutes' suggestion as windoze rarely stays up that long <g>). My solution was to add 'lm announce = yes' to the smb.conf. This isn't a great solution as it creates some extra network traffic, but on a small network, this is hardly a problem. <plug type="shameless">take a look at my Samba-Beginners-HowTo which is in development at http://wilbur.ozsome.com/~samba/ and maybe that will help you. Like I said, it's in development, and could use some work.</plug> HTH -Dano
