[Gllug] Browsing a SAMBA machine from Windoze

[Steve Rochford]

If you look in event viewer on the Windows 2000 machines do you see any
entries about the Linux machines claiming to be a master browser and
forcing an election? The lines "local master=yes" "domain master=yes"
and "preferred master=yes" are telling the machine that it should be a
master browser; ideally you only want one master browser and it might be
easier to let the Windows machine be the browser.

When you open network neighbourhood you're looking at a list which has
been built by the browse process on the master browser; if everything is
trying to be a master browser then it's very likely that no machine will
successfully win the election and so no browse list appears.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Jones [mailto:rich at annexia.org] 
Sent: 24 July 2003 12:19
To: gllug at linux.co.uk
Subject: [Gllug] Browsing a SAMBA machine from Windoze



Hi:

I've just added a W2K server machine to my network. I've got Samba
running on my other machines, and I want the W2K server to be able to
see the other machines and access files on them.  Easy enough? Ha ha ...

So far I've got the Samba configuration below on one machine. I can now
explicitly mount \\linux\rich and \\linux\tmp (I have to manually type a
password, which is a pain, but it works).

But I can't get the machine to be listed in the "Network neighbourhood"
at all. It just doesn't appear there ...

What am I doing wrong?

Rich.

PS. Setting 'os level' doesn't make things work, but it does slow down
the process of mounting drives a lot.

----------------------------------------------------------------------
security = user

encrypt passwords = yes
local master = yes
domain master = yes
preferred master = yes
os level = 65

printing = cups

[global]
        workgroup = WORKGROUP

[homes]
        guest ok = no
        read only = no
        browseable = yes

[tmp]
        comment = Temporary space
        path = /tmp
        read only = no
        public = yes
        browseable = yes

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