Winders or Samba problem..

[Matthew Carpenter]

Is this a new install or did this somehow change suddenly?
Let me get this straight - you are running SMB through the firewall?  Are
you running WINS?  Where does the WINS-Server live?  

You are aware that Network Neighborhood has always been a at-will system,
right?  It works at it's own will.  If you are NOT running WINS, then you
typically have to have machines on the network and unchanging for a long
time before browsing works.  You should be able to get to the machines by
Start->Run->"\\servername"


On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 10:36:57 -0400
"William F. Day" <bill at daysdomain.com> 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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