Hello u all, sorry to bring this issue back again, but I´ve been

searching and trying all the advices suggested in previous posts and I

still can´t see the samba server in the win network neighborhood.



I can see the samba shares from win via net view servername



but if I issue a plain "net view" samba won´t show up. only the win

machines, the same i can see on the Neighborhood...

and when I select local master = no *Samba would stay without master!

I issue smbclient -L servername -U% and the master section remains empty.



It´s like samba is not being able to "talk" to the rest of the

workgroup. (of course they are all in the same workgroup)



I´m using "wins support = yes" and I´ve set the DHCP to set the
clients to use the samba server as wins server.I´ve checked the win
clients and they get the correct conf.



I´ve tried stopping iptables, disabling Selinux, different smb.conf from the simple

examples of t first chapters of samba by example, *to plenty of

options... that´s why I´m not including my smb.conf, because I´ve

tried many variations, always with the same results.
I tried a
basic samba configuration in a ubuntu server in another box just to
test, anf the win clients were able to see it in the neigbohood... so I guess the
issue is on my Centos box. I tried the same smb.conf from that
working ubuntu-samba and didn´t make it on the Centos...




Btw, the server is a Centos 5.3, with samba 3.2.15 (it also happened

with the default samba, so I´ve upgraded just in case...)



I hope someone can point me some directions...



thanks in advance!!



Matias
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>It´s like samba is not being able to "talk" to the rest of the
>workgroup. (of course they are all in the same workgroup)
>
>I´m using "wins support = yes" and I´ve set the DHCP to set the clients to use the samba server as wins server.I´ve checked the win clients and they get the correct conf.

Unless you have pre w2k clients, disable Wins, Win2k uses DNS or Netbios res.
What you are experiencing is a lag in the population of the master browser, you
need patience. You could setup up dyn dns for the Samba server and win clients
as well...

You set local master = no, so what / who is the master browser? Do you have any
win servers?

Setup Sambas as per the example, then go away and grab a coffee... It takes ~15 mins...
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On
> Behalf Of Joseph L. Casale
> Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 11:08 AM
> To: 'CentOS mailing list'
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Cannot see samba in win Neighborhood
>
> >It´s like samba is not being able to "talk" to the rest of the
> >workgroup. (of course they are all in the same workgroup)
> >
> >I´m using "wins support = yes" and I´ve set the DHCP to set the clients
> to use the samba server as wins server.I´ve checked the win clients and
> they get the correct conf.
>
> Unless you have pre w2k clients, disable Wins, Win2k uses DNS or Netbios
> res.
> What you are experiencing is a lag in the population of the master
> browser, you
> need patience. You could setup up dyn dns for the Samba server and win
> clients
> as well...
>
> You set local master = no, so what / who is the master browser? Do you
> have any
> win servers?
>
> Setup Sambas as per the example, then go away and grab a coffee... It
> takes ~15 mins...
----

Set Samba as the master Browser. You may have to bump the number up for it.
Then service smb reload. Then restart the Windows clients (lots faster).
All you really need to access the server is server_namemachine_share
then map the Network Drive to it. I have seen some win clients that just
would not enumerate shares though.

John

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