Winders or Samba problem..

[Net Llama!]

Some random stuff i found on groups.google.com for that error:

1) Do you have WINS running on both PDCs in a push-pull replication
scheme? For both domains to successfully browse each other, each must
have a valid copy of the combined WINS database.

2) You also need to make sure that the Linux box is acting as a 'Domain 
Master Browser".


William F. Day 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...

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