Re: samba/network neighborhood question
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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