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.
Another user gave you the '15 minutes' suggestion which I have found works
on my box.
> So my question is, what makes it show up (or not) in Network
> Neighborhood?
read BROWSING.txt which comes with SAMBA for a technical explanation.
There are many things which can cause it to show up/not show up in
nethood.
Another user gave you the suggestion of using your SAMBA server as a WINS
server. This also worked for me when I was setting up SAMBA, however,
this solution was unacceptable for my purposes (as was the '15 minutes'
suggestion as windoze rarely stays up that long <g>). My solution was to
add 'lm announce = yes' to the smb.conf. This isn't a great solution as
it creates some extra network traffic, but on a small network, this is
hardly a problem.
<plug type="shameless">take a look at my Samba-Beginners-HowTo which is in
development at http://wilbur.ozsome.com/~samba/ and maybe that will help
you. Like I said, it's in development, and could use some work.</plug>
HTH
-Dano
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