On Wednesday 15 October 2003 09:14, Dotan Mazor wrote: > 1) What samba version do you use? As you can see from the smbclient output I already sent, I'm using Samba 2.2.7a-security-rollup-fix. This is what Mandrake update (which I run regularly) installed.
> 2) Why don't you set the "master browser" variable for the linux box? Notice that this is set in the smb.conf I sent: preferred master = Yes. But for some reason, I seem to have 2 masters (and as I wrote, that's what I suspect is causing the problem). The LINUX box (shlomo1) is always master and one of the Win98s. It seems to be random which of the three is master, but it may have to so with which has been on longer. Note that the LINUX box is always on but the Win98 are turned on and off by users - my wife and kids :-). Someone from the list wrote me directly and suggested raising the os level = 40, so I tried 90 but it didn't help. > 3) Don't know much about winbind, but perhaps you souhld check about using > it. I never heard of winbind so I GOOGLED and found the following: "Winbind is an nss switch module to map Windows NT Domain databases to Unix. In combination with Samba and pam_ntdom, a Unix box will be able to integrate straight into a full Windows NT Domain environment, without needing a Unix Account database." Since I have only LINUX and Win98 (no NT), and since in the past the network worked as expected, I doubt that this is relevant. > 4) Try changing the cable or switch the card on the linux box - one of > them may be defective. I also got a similar suggestion off the list, but I can't see how this is relevant since all other network activity (aside from Samba) seems normal. As I already wrote, all computers can ping each other. And (what I didn't write is that) all the Win98 machines are reaching the Internet over my LINUX ADSL connection using masquerading. So I don't think this is a physical network problem. I must have inadvertantly screwed something up in the Samba setup. I would guess that the problem is not in Windows (but I'm not sure) since the Network Neighborhood problem appeared on all 3 machines so it doesn't seem logical that all three got screwed up. It makes more sense that one **screw up** in Samba caused the problem. To repeat, my main problem is that 3 Win98 Network Neighborhoods can see each other but not the LINUX box (maybe because of having both a LINUX and a Win98 master??) whereas LINUX LinNeighborhood can usually see all machines (although sometimes it sees only itself OR only the Win98 machines). -- Shlomo Solomon http://come.to/shlomo.solomon Sent by KMail (KDE 3.1) on LINUX Mandrake 9.1 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
