Network Servers unable to browse network

[Scot L. Harris]

On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 11:02, Cowles, Steve wrote:

> Scot,
> 
> I can only confirm that I have the same problem you describe at this end,
> but only when using gnome/nautilus. Using KDE's konqueror, I see no problems
> at all with netbios name resolution/browsing. i.e. smb:///
> 

Yeah, this is looking more and more like a problem in nautilus.  I don't
think samba is having any problems and if you have it working in
konqueror that would lend some weight to nautilus being the problem.


> As a reference:
> 
> 1) My FC2 system is located behind my firewall and does not start any
> netfilter/iptable rules.
> 
> 2) When nautilus fails - using the samba nmblookup/smbclient commands return
> the proper __MSBROWSE__ record for my network (the WINS server) and
> subsequent queries to the master browser record return all registered
> domains/hosts.
> 
> 3) If I logout of GNOME and then log back in, nautilus will work for awhile,
> but then (for no appearent reason) starts exhibiting the same problems you
> describe. Which makes me think this is some kind of authentication problem.
> i.e. expired token or something along those lines. But I'll be damned if I
> can spot what is causing this using ethereal captures.
> 

I don't think I have ever seen nautilus bring up the list of servers on
the network.  So you are one up on me for that.  :)

> BTW: Would you mind posting the link to your bugzilla report. I too, would
> like to follow this problem.
> 

No problem!  http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=129398

> Steve Cowles 

Anything you can add would be appreciated.

-- 
Scot L. Harris <webid at cfl.rr.com>