How come I can't see my redhat SMB share, but can connect to it?

[smp]

I have redhat 7.3 running samba, and I can connect and browse shares from my win2k machine provided I enter the ip ie;
\\##.###.###.##
in explorer, but I can't see it in network neighbourhood. I can see my other SMB share from my debian box though. Is this a wins thing?

 

[Nothinman]

If they're all on the same network they should be found by broadcasts, WINS is only really necessary in segmented network or with a Domain.

 

[smp]

What is broadcasts? Any ideas how I can fix this or what might be wrong? How can I troubleshoot this? my logs don't tell me anything.

 

[manly]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
If they're all on the same network they should be found by broadcasts, WINS is only really necessary in segmented network or with a Domain.

The key word here is should. SMB as implemented by MS is a voodoo science.

 

[Nothinman]

What is broadcasts?

Packets that have a destination of the broadcast address are delivered to ever node on the same subnet.

Any ideas how I can fix this or what might be wrong? How can I troubleshoot this? my logs don't tell me anything.

Not really, browser election always worked itself out for me, except for browselists across subnets but that's not your issue, and now I have Samba doing WINS. I also have the same box doing DHCP and in the DHCP setup it hands it, it tells the client which box is the WINS server.

 

[TW2002]

Or how about looking at your smb.conf file and making sure the share is browesable. You will also find in that file information regarding WINS. It is not neccessary for browsing the share. You may want to look at having your samba server becoming the master browser. The 2K box is proably winning a forced election for that role. Look in your event viewer. That will wack out SMB.