Samba problem

Aaron Grewell agrewell
Mon May 17 11:41:02 PDT 2004


Have you configured WINS?  I've often had bizarre issues with network
browsing without it, but usually once it's on in Samba and set in the
clients most browsing issues will go away.

On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 04:27, David A. Bandel wrote:
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> Folks,
> 
> I have a Windoze network with a Samba server.
> 
> The Windoze network is composed of 98 and ME.  The Workgroup name is
> Oteima.
> 
> On the 98 systems, there's one listing for Oteima and all systems show up
> in it.
> 
> On the ME systems, there's two listings for Oteima (yes, two Oteima
> workgroups).
> 
> - From the Samba server, I can use nmblookup and see _all_ the systems. 
> Using smbclient, however, I can only connect to systems in one of the
> Oteima workgoups but not the other (10 in one, three in the other, the 3 I
> can connect to are mixed 98 and ME).
> 
> Damndest thing I ever saw.  Problem is, the one system the Samba server
> _needs_ to talk to is in the other Oteima group. (God, I hate Windoze).
> 
> Any suggestions (besides scrap Windoze?) ?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> David A. Bandel
> - -- 
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