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Samba and Windows 2000

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by graemeduncan

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I have RH 6.2 and RH 7 configured on 2 PCs on my NT network. I have installed and configured samba on both Linux boxes OK and can map network drives from W2K clients to these boxes.

However I cannot see the Linux boxes whn I run Network Neighbourhood or its equivalent, anyone any suggestions??

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by Member 36395912

Rats. It's in a drill-down but I don't remember
the name of it or when. It's too late and I'm
too crisp to remember. Search the CD's.
You don't have them? Awww!

by andrekiepe

Hello,
if you have a WINS server in your network, use it! Browsing the "network neighbourhood" will show your Linux NetBIOS resources after a while.

add a line:
wins server = www.xxx.yyy.zzz
into the [global] section of your /etc/samba/smb.conf file,
and restart samba
/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart.

The browsing process is a horrible story in the Microsoft world. Good luck!

by bg4

Try adding the line "browsable" to the relevant shares in the smb.conf file. I usually add it to the world mappable drives and printers but not to users personal home directories. This way only the publicly mappable resources will appear in Network Nieghbourhood.

Hope this helps.

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