On 12/18/09 10:15, Matias Morawicki wrote:
Hello u all, sorry to bring this issue back again, but I´ve been
searching and trying all the advices suggested in previous posts and I
still can´t see the samba server in the win network neighborhood.

I can see the samba shares from win via net view \\servername

but if I issue a plain "net view" samba won´t show up. only the win
machines, the same i can see on the Neighborhood...

I´ve tried stopping iptables, different smb.conf from the simple
examples of t first chapters of samba by example,  to plenty of
options... that´s why I´m not including my smb.conf, because I´ve
tried many variations, always with the same results. I even tried a
working smb.conf from another linux box which was showing in win
Neighborhood...

and when I select local master = no  Samba would stay without master!
I issue smbclient -L servername -U% and the master section remains empty.

It´s like samba is not being able to "talk" to the rest of the
workgroup. (of course they are all in the same workgroup)

Btw, the server is a Centos 5.3, with samba 3.2.15 (it also happened
with the default samba, so I´ve upgraded just in case...)

I hope someone can point me some directions...

thanks in advance!!

Matias
Are you using a WINS server- I find that makes a lot of these issues go away. My guess is that your samba machines and windows machines are talking to different net bios browser masters (I use WINS servers to avoid having to figure out this stuff.)


I have, at home, run in to this same issue with Windows machines (workgroup not domain, and no samba servers involved) not seeing each other in network neighborhood. Does turning off the XP firewall (assuming that you are using XP Pro) make a difference?


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