Cannot see my Linux computers in network browsers.
 

Hi all,
I have a home network consisting of 2 linux machines and 2 xp machines. My ISP is AT&T and I am using their 2WIRE modem/wireless router. The Linux machines are connected by ethernet (hard wired) the 2 xp machines are wireless. My AT&T system summary page detects all 4 machines. I can successfully ping any machine from any other machine on the network. I have used Samba to setup the home network. My problem is that when I open the network browsers of any machine only the xp machines are visible. The names of the linux machines on the AT&T Summary page seem to have been assigned by AT&T and they are using the hostnames of the machines. I do not know how to change the names of these machines on the AT&T network. Does anyone have the knowledge to help me? Thanks.

What linux distribution / version are you running?
Are all the computers configured for the same workgroup?
Are the samba daemons (smbd and nmbd) actually running? In a console terminal run the command:
ps ax | grep mbd

You might see more then one smbd or smbd process running.

Thanks.
OpenSuse 12.2 64bit on one Linux and 11.3 on the other

Yes, all are designated workgroup=WORKGROUP


Output from: ps ax | grep mbd

3406 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep --color=auto mbd

I do not know what that output means.

It means that the samba server is not running on that particular computer. You can use YaST to start samba at boot time and to open its ports for incomming connections.

Here is a howto for SuSE
http://www.howtoforge.com/opensuse-1...tdbsam-backend

I am having no problem with Samba. I can see and access files on my xp machines from linux. My problem is with linux communicating with my other linux machine using the Samba server. Can you help me with this?

You don't need the samba server running to use a client. That is why you can access the Window's files from Linux even though the samba server (smbd) isn't running. You need to start the samba service (smbd) as already mentioned. You may need to configure samba to indicate what you want to share. You may also need to enable samba & samba browsing in the firewall.

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