Re: samba/network neighborhood question
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.
In a mixed NT/Linux environment, I found that using a WINS server (and
configuring it into smb.conf) makes my Linux servers show up immediately
for all TCP/IP-ready Windoze boxen. Of course, if (when - it was NT) the
WINS box crashes and is rebooted, the Linux servers aren't visible until
samba is restarted.
I'd bet in a non-NT environment, merely enabling wins support in smb.conf
and configuring said WINS server into Winders should at least help the
visibility of the server. YMMV.
Pete
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Peter J. Templin, Jr.
Systems and Networks Administrator
Jlink Internet Services
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