[seul-edu] Fw: Samba shares don't show in Network Neighborhood

[Douglas Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, owner-seul-edu@seul.org wrote:

> From: Gary Frankenbery <garyf@internetcds.com>
> To: seul-edu@seul.org
> Subject: Samba shares don't show in Network Neighborhood

> 
> In my school lab, I have a Linux Mandrake 8.0 Server running
> Samba 2.0.10. I 
> have several Samba shares set-up (using webmin and
> swat--wonderful products), 
> which all MS-Windows clients can access.
> 
> The problem is, the Samba shares won't show up on my
> MS-Windows 98 clients in 
> the Network Neighborhood.  And, yes, the workgroup names match
> between Samba 
> server and clients.
> 
> In fact, I can access the Samba server shares in Network
> Neighborhood, if I 
> manually type in the location and share name into the Network
> Neighborhood 
> location box, i.e. \\penguin\labshare.
> 
> Why don't my Samba Server shares show in the browse list on my
> MS-Windows 98 
> clients?
> 
> Gary Frankenbery
> Grants Pass High School
> Grants Pass, OR    
> garyf@internetcds.com  OR  gfranken@grantspass.k12.or.us
> 
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