Winders or Samba problem..

[Brett I. Holcomb]

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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...
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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