Samba problems

[Nicholas Ruddick]

antonio montagnani wrote:

> antonio montagnani wrote/ha scritto, On/il 01/06/2004 12:09:
>
>> Suddenly (at least I cannot remember any change) I cannot use the 
>> Network server with samba as I get the following message
>>
>>
>> Impossible to show smb:/// as Nautilus cannot contact SMB master 
>> browser.
>> Please check if a SMB server is operating on local network
>>
>> And here are results of a testparm.....
>>
>> [root at Contec antoniomontagnani]# testparm
>> Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
>> Processing section "[homes]"
>> Processing section "[printers]"
>> Processing section "[Aurat]"
>> Loaded services file OK.
>> Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE
>> Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions
>>
>> # Global parameters
>> [global]
>>        server string = PC Antonio
>>        null passwords = Yes
>>        username map = /etc/samba/user.map
>>        log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
>>        max log size = 50
>>        socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
>>        os level = 10
>>        dns proxy = No
>>        guest ok = Yes
>>        hosts allow = 192.168.0.0/24
>>
>> [homes]
>>        comment = Home Directories
>>        read only = No
>>
>> [printers]
>>        comment = All Printers
>>        path = /var/spool/samba
>>        printable = Yes
>>        browseable = No
>>
>> [Aurat]
>>        comment = Copia directory HP
>>        path = /home/antoniomontagnani/HP
>>        read only = No
>>
>
> Additional infos from command smbclient.....
>
> smbclient -L localhost -N
> Domain=[CONTEC] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.2-7.FC1]
>
>        Sharename      Type      Comment
>        ---------      ----      -------
>        homes          Disk      Home Directories
>        Aurat          Disk      Copia directory HP
>        IPC$           IPC       IPC Service (PC Antonio)
>        ADMIN$         IPC       IPC Service (PC Antonio)
>        HP_Celeron     Printer   Created by redhat-config-printer 0.6.x
>        Epson810       Printer   Epson810
>        antonio        Disk      Home Directories
> Domain=[CONTEC] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.2-7.FC1]
>
>        Server               Comment
>        ---------            -------
>
>        Workgroup            Master
>        ---------            -------
>        WORKGROUP
>
> Any clue??? I guess that the problem is that I cannot see any Server 
> and any Master, but what shall I do???

I'm having a similar problem of when I go to Network Servers it very 
occasionally shows all the servers but most of the time it just shows 
Windows Network with nothing inside it.

Nicholas Ruddick