Just to close this off. Thanks to all for the assistance.
I do have DHCP handing out the samba WINS server. What I have found is;
1. Despite the claim being so, Windows cannot network neighbourhood
browse without using port 139. At least my XP SP2 boxes (5) can't. So
using 'smb ports = 445' doesn't work.
2. I have 'map to guest = Bad User' set and have been trying to browse
the Workgroup "My Network Places -> Entire Network -> Microsoft Windows
Network - > <workgroup_name>" on an XP host under my user name. But this
particular machine has no passwd for my user.
As I am set up in Samba as a user and with a passwd, from those machines
where my username has a passwd which matches the registered samba
passwd, I have no problems. However on the machine where I have no
passwd set, unlike the other XP boxes, I am unable to browse the
Workgroup at all. If I know the share I can connect as a guest, but I
can't "browse" the Workgroup the way it is possible to do with Windows
Hosts.
In fact, it appears that with Samba unless you are a recognised user,
you cannot browse the workgroup at all. You can log on to a share, IF
you know the name of that share, but it appears Samba does not allow you
to browse a workgroup for which it is the master.
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Kind Regards
Kyle
Michael Heydon wrote:
Theoretically this should all just happen automatically, in the real
world the broadcast method of finding hosts and workgroups is pretty
flakey. MS worked around this by creating WINS, which is sort of like
DNS for SMB. All MS servers since way back when have handed out WINS
settings via DHCP out of the box. Under *nix, you need to tell your
DHCP server to hand out a WINS server (or specify it on each machine
manually).
On an unrelated note, your smb.conf is overly complex, you are
specifying a lot of settings where the defaults are most likely
entirely suitable. You might find it easier in the long term to start
over again with the standard config that ships with samba and only add
settings that you actually need. (e.g. messing with buffer settings
has been depreciated for quite some years).
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