Is this a new install or did this somehow change suddenly? Let me get this straight - you are running SMB through the firewall? Are you running WINS? Where does the WINS-Server live?
You are aware that Network Neighborhood has always been a at-will system, right? It works at it's own will. If you are NOT running WINS, then you typically have to have machines on the network and unchanging for a long time before browsing works. You should be able to get to the machines by Start->Run->"\\servername" On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 10:36:57 -0400 "William F. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all.. I have a TSL1.5(Trustix Secure Linux) box running kernel > 2.2.20 with samba 2.2.5 from the distro itself... > > The problem is that all of a sudden, none of the win98SE clients on the > network can view the shares or any of the computers on the network. > However, the kicker.. all mapped drives still work.. > > Running net view on the 98SE boxes produces the following: > Error 6118: The computer(s) sharing resources in this workgroup cannot > be located. The computer(s) might have been restarted. Wait a few > minutes, and then try again. If the problem persists, make sure your > network-adapter settings are correct. > > It was also suggested to run nbtstat -R to reload the networking info > for the winder boxes but it didnt seem to help.. > > Well, like I said everything still works except being able to view the > network. I use PMFirewall for my Gateway/IPChains and Masquerading and > this of course still works fine. I can ping all systems by name, IP > and they all resolve using a little shareware windows utility called > TJPingPro and doing a sequence scan of my internal subnet... > > Just wondering if anyone else has had this problem.. whether it is a > winders problem or soemthing with samba. I did do an update/upgrade to > samba about a week ago, but my backup smb.conf makes no difference and > all mapped shares in winders still connect right after I loggin... > > Any ideas greatly appreciated & TIA > > Bill Day > > Linux 2.2.20-1tr i586 > 11:10am up 14 days, 1:06, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.373 / Virus Database: 208 - Release Date: 7/1/02 > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list - > http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the > above URL. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
