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Old 05-16-2007, 01:15 PM   #1
mijohnst
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Samba box not listed in Windows network list


This might be more of a Windows question so I'm sorry for that.

I have a Solaris 5.8 server sitting on a network with a Windows 2003 AD domain. I'm using Samba authenticate users from the Windows domain and that's working just fine. Where I'm having a problem is that it's not showing up in the Windows Network pool. I thought it was a time problem so I waited over an hour and it's still not showing up. Is there a special trick to make it happen? A service that needs to be restarted on Windows or Solaris? This is what I have in my smb.conf file. Any help would be appreciated.

Code:
workgroup = WinDomain
netbois name = SunShare-Server
server string = These are shares off the Sun Server
encrypt password = yes
password server 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.2
security = server
log file = /var/opt/samba/log.%m
socte options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192
remote browser sync = 192.168.1.255 192.168.1.1
remote announce = 192.168.1.255 192.168.1.1
wins server = 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.2
name resolve order = bcast host lmhosts wins
domain master = no
local master = no
preserve case = yes
short preserve case = no
dos filetime resolution = yes
I also wanted to add that when on a Windows machine if I type "\\SunShare-Server\myshare" in the address box of explorer, it comes right up. It's just not showing up in the list.

Last edited by mijohnst; 05-16-2007 at 03:00 PM.
 
Old 05-17-2007, 06:01 AM   #2
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Did you set your firewall to open ports 137-139?

It's possible that a hyphen in the netbios name is invalid (just guessing)
 
Old 05-18-2007, 08:42 AM   #3
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Thanks for the response back... I haven't messed anything with the firewall because I had it working before. The only thing that I can think of that would have changed it was I upgraded our domain to us AD 2003. I wonder if I'm just missing an option in the smb.conf file.
 
  


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