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

[Rajiv Banerji <rajivbanerji@roltanet.com>]

On Sunday 02 September 2001 04:46 pm, you 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?
>
> Just to check the obvious.  You did make the shares 'browseable' under
> swat?
>
> Rasjid,

Canned tools like swat and linuxconf while, being user-friendly, always add 
additional and totally unwanted and hence confusing lines to config scripts. 
These are know to cause problems. Besides being dangerously M$'esque. 
	In my experience, it's best to open these flat files in your favourite 
editor and do it by hand a-la the dirty way. In this case dirty meaning very 
very clean and precise.
	After all, you have to know what you are doing in the dirty way.
With a canned tool or mouse, you can click away till doomsday or worse.

Brgds
Rajiv