Unable to See SUSE 8.2/SAMBA Server from Windoze

I can attach a network drive on a Server running SAMBA on SUSE 8.2 from a
Windoze machine, provided I know the address of the SAMBA Server.
However if I look in 'My Network Places' on the Windoze machine and browse
the network the SUSE Server is not seen.
There is a solution for an earlier version of SUSE on the SUSE site at
http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/snbarth_nwumgebung.html which covers editing
rc.config to remove a dummy device.
rc.config does not exist in SUSE 8.2, does anyone know what has replaced
it, or where I can now find the dummy device configuration, or any other
solutions to my 'invisible server' problem?

Thanks in advance

Z.

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"Zebedee" <zebedee@xyzzy.com> wrote in message
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| I can attach a network drive on a Server running SAMBA on SUSE 8.2 from a
| Windoze machine, provided I know the address of the SAMBA Server.
| However if I look in 'My Network Places' on the Windoze machine and browse
| the network the SUSE Server is not seen.
| There is a solution for an earlier version of SUSE on the SUSE site at
| http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/snbarth_nwumgebung.html which covers
editing
| rc.config to remove a dummy device.
| rc.config does not exist in SUSE 8.2, does anyone know what has replaced
| it, or where I can now find the dummy device configuration, or any other
| solutions to my 'invisible server' problem?
|
| Thanks in advance
|
| Z.
|
| --
| To contact me go to http://home.wulfrun.com/zebedee/contact.html

you need to make samba aware of the WINS server. look up the WINS references
on the SAMBA site. since you are most likely not going to function as the
WINS controller, there are some options you need to pay attention to so you
don't screw up the "browser elections".

wins support = no #this is set if you want to act as a server
wins server = 129.22.4.10 #register with the existing WINS server
name resolve order = wins hosts lmhosts bcast

local master = no
preferred master = no
domain master = no
os level = 16
workgroup = <your domain name>
netbios name = <your server name>
server string = <description of server>

ken k

"Zebedee" <zebedee@xyzzy.com> wrote in message
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| "Ken Kauffman" <kkauffman@nospam.headfog.com> wrote in
| news:yrVRa.7983$zd4.5533@lakeread02:
|
| >
| >
| > "Zebedee" <zebedee@xyzzy.com> wrote in message
| > news:Xns93BC968FF25D7zeezebedeecom@195.8.68.205...
|
| {SNIP]
|
| >| There is a solution for an earlier version of SUSE on the SUSE site
| >| at http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/snbarth_nwumgebung.html which
| >| covers
| > editing
| >| rc.config to remove a dummy device.
| >| rc.config does not exist in SUSE 8.2, does anyone know what has
| >| replaced it, or where I can now find the dummy device configuration,
| >| or any other solutions to my 'invisible server' problem?
| >|
| >| Thanks in advance
| >|
| >| Z.
| >|
| >| --
|
| >
| > you need to make samba aware of the WINS server. look up the WINS
| > references on the SAMBA site. since you are most likely not going to
| > function as the WINS controller, there are some options you need to
| > pay attention to so you don't screw up the "browser elections".
| >
| > wins support = no #this is set if you want to act as a server
| > wins server = 129.22.4.10 #register with the existing WINS
| > server name resolve order = wins hosts lmhosts bcast
| >
| > local master = no
| > preferred master = no
| > domain master = no
| > os level = 16
| > workgroup = <your domain name>
| > netbios name = <your server name>
| > server string = <description of server>
| >
| > ken k
| >
| >
| >
|
| Ken
|
| Thanks for your reply,
|
| My setup is 2 Windoze machines (ME and XP) and a SUSE 8.2 machine, I want
| the SUSE Machine to work as a workgroup server so it will be the WINS
| server for the network. Hard coding the IP address of the SUSE machine
| allows the 2 windoze machines to logon and set up shares under SAMBA, the
| only thing that doesn't happen is that the SUSE server isn't seen in the
| network browser. I know its a minor problem, but I would like to get it
| right in case this is a sympton of something more serious with my setup.
|
| As I said originally, I think its more of a SUSE specific problem rather
| than SAMBA.
|
|
|
| Thanks
|
| Z.
|
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| To contact me go to http://home.wulfrun.com/zebedee/contact.html

its a windows netbios/samba configuration issue:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=188001

change the options to this:

wins support = yes
(removed)
(removed)

local master = yes
preferred master = yes
domain master = yes
os level = 64
workgroup = <your workgroup/domain name>
netbios name = <your SuSE server name>
server string = <description of server>

Reload the configuration (/etc/init.d/smb restart)

Then wait 5-10 minutes for all the machines to re-elect and everything
should show up just fine.

ken k


ken k