Re: samba hell

[Marty Landman <MLandman face2interface com>]

At 12:08 PM 1/29/2004, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Marty Landman wrote:
> > any idea why I've lost the ability to browse network neighborhood on my 
> > xp home box since setting up samba on the linux box?
>
> The only thing I can think of is the browser election process.

Rick I posted a follow up - with revised subject - because I fixed it. 
Turned out that my previous failed install of samba on my freebsd box 
somehow interacting with the linux-samba install caused this. Once I got 
samba servers running on both the linux and fbsd boxes on my lan the xp 
explorer problem went away.

> I don't have your smb.conf file handy, but check the file for the "local 
> browser" and "browser list" options.

Not using those. I've got as stripped down a pair of conf files as possible 
and will gladly post them both if you like. Apparently they are both part 
of what's happening on my lan from what I experienced.

> If you care to post the file again, I'll have a look.

What I'm interested in knowing now is how to access shares between the 
linux and fbsd boxes, and also why I can't access shares from my w9x boxes. 
BTW there are 5 boxes in my office lan

xp home - my workstation
w98 - my wife's workstation
w95 - a fileserver
rh 9 linux - sandbox
fbsd 4.8 - web dev server (lan only)

**Just occurred to me, am I being somehow wasteful running samba servers on 
both my unix machines? Would I be better off running on one and then 
assuming this is possible, set up shares from the other to access from my 
xp workstation?

I think this was more than a mouthful and hope it makes sense.


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