2009/12/18 Gaiseric Vandal <[email protected]> > 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? > > Thanx for the reply Gaiseric!
yes, I´m using "wins support = yes" and I´ve set the DHCP to set the clients to use the samba server as wins server.I´ve checked the win clients and they get the correct conf. I haven´t tried turning off the XP firewall, but when I tried a basic samba configuration in a ubuntu server in another box just to test, they were able to see it in the neigbohood... so I guess the issue is on the Centos side. I tried the same smb.conf from that working ubuntu-samba and didn´t make it on the Centos... thanks again! Matias -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
