Samba problems

[Edward]

antonio montagnani wrote:

> Nicholas Ruddick wrote/ha scritto, On/il 01/06/2004 15:20:
> 
>> 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
>>
>>
> My network  is  very simple, a Linux server and some XP machines.
> Today  I had only one  XP machine running, but I could not surf the 
> network: I stopped the XP machine for a while (10 minutes), and 
> restarted again the XP machine.....and everything was working.
> Quite sure that other Xp machinen don't cause similar troubles.....
> What is going on???

If you're running XP PROFESSIONAL, your XP boxes may be fighting for 
master browser rights. There's a way to turn that off, but I can't 
remember how.

Regards,
Ed.