Re: samba/network neighborhood question

[Leen Besselink <leen@wirehub.nl>]

I think I know... I think you havd samba running from inetd,
so when win95/98 issues a request... the samba server doesn't answer right
away (it needs to be started first). That would be like starting apache
from inetd, it takes a little time to get the first response...
so what you need to do is...:

1. you can make samba active... bye, typing the smbname or ipaddress in
the startmenu/search/computer... so samba get's started...

or:

2. what would be better...
make samba a daemon and not start from inetd.

just my 2 cents,
	Leen.

On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 ferret@ricochet.net wrote:

> 
> Funny..Just my experiences on the samba subject. I've recently moved my
> network to a new apartment. Worked perfectly for a while, then my single
> win98 machine began having troubles connecting to the samba server.
> Sometimes the server wouldn't show up, sometimes the 'network' would be
> down, sometimes it couldn't browse the network at all. And through it all
> I could still access the internet from the machine. (Samba box also the
> network gateway)
> I actually had to threaten to reinstall windows on the win98 box before it
> started working again. No settings tweaking or rebooting helped. I
> actually had to go look for the installation CD to make it work again. I
> still have no idea what the 'problem' was or how it was 'fixed'.
> 
> On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Ben Frame wrote:
> 
> > I just got Samba installed and it seems to be working fine.  But it
> > doesn't always show up in my Network Neighborhood under Win95.  Both the
> > Debian machine and Win95 machine are on the same subnet and both are in
> > a workgroup called "linux."   I've made several changes to my smb.conf
> > file, and consequently restarted the debian machine a few times.
> > Sometimes it shows up in Network Neighborhood, and sometimes it
> > doesn't.  Sometimes it will show up later, but not immediately.
> > 
> > So my question is, what makes it show up (or not) in Network
> > Neighborhood?
> > 
> > I can see the Debian machine if I do a search for it with Win95
> > (start/find/computer/name).  And for now I've just placed a shortcut to
> > it on my desktop to keep from having to search every time.
> > 
> > If anyone can shed any light, I would certainly appreciate it.
> > 
> > Ben Frame
> > frameb@wabash.edu
> > 
> > 
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