[FEDORA] Browsing Samba in Nautilus

[Christopher A. Williams]

On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 11:40, shrek-m at gmx.de wrote:
> 
> try this:
> 
> 
> $ nmblookup -M -- -
> querying 
__MSBROWSE__ on 192.168.101.255
> 192.168.101.12 
__MSBROWSE__<01>
> 
> if you have an MasterBrowser  smb:///  works

OK - the odd thing here is I just ran all of the updates for today and
now browsing with smb:/// works.

...BUT my Windows VMs are not able to connect with any of the shares on
he main Saba server. At least they can see it now, so there has been
some improvement. All of this with *no* further changes to my smb.conf
file.

> 
> do you have ?
> encrypt password = yes

Yes, this is the default setting according to the documentation, but I
have it in there anyway.
> 
> if you have multiple interfaces you need evtl something like this:
> interfaces = 192.168.0.0/24 192.168.10.0/24
> 
> vmware?
> $ cat /etc/vmware/vmnet1/smb/smb.conf
> 

Actually, I use VMware's preferred method of CIFS file sharing, which is
to use the instance of Samba provided with the host OS. I turn off
VMware's samba server intentionally.

<snip...>

> under rh8.0 samba became immediately MBrowser
> under FC-test2 samba needs 5-6 minutes to start this election
> 
> 
> try it with different settings, here is my result under fc-test2
> 
> ;encrypt  ;interfaces  -->  no smb:///
> encrypt  ;interfaces  -->  smb:/// works  after 5-6 min
> encrypt  interfaces  -->  smb:/// works  after 5-6 min
> 

Interesting test. I will look into this part further. AFAIK, I was still
having problems with browsing even after a couple of hours. I confirmed
at that time the nmbd.log file showed the samba server had become the
master browser.

We'll keep trying though!

Chris

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