Odd...Does the WINS server have a static mapping for any of the old network hosts?
You might try flushing the WINS database and letting it rebuild. Does the server have a 15-character name? There have been some issues discussed lately re: that... Try using a different name for the samba server and see if it becoems browseable... Jim > -----Original Message----- > From: C. Bensend [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 3:36 PM > To: Herb Lewis > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Samba] After reIP, Samba hosts not browsable. > > > > On Fri, 10 May 2002, Herb Lewis wrote: > > > If you are set up to use WINS this is definitely your problem. > > If possible upgrade your samba systems to 2.2.4. Previous > > versions had a bug where the would not register with the > > WINS server if there was an old registration there - even > > if that was no longer being defended. > > > > "Van Sickler, Jim" wrote: > > > > > > Did you update the hosts/lmhosts files on > > > all of the servers & clients? If not, > > > they still contain the IP info from your > > > old scheme... > > Hello Herb and Jim, > > I checked, and the hosts and lmhosts files did not > contain any old IP information. > > I did go ahead and upgrade one of my machines to > 2.2.4, with no change - the host still did not appear in > Network Neighborhood. I checked with the Windows guys, and > there was no previous machine account on the domain for that > machine. Before the reIP, it was browsable. > > This seems to point 100% at WINS, but I hope that I'm > not ruffling too many feathers by continuing this thread > here - I think that this is probably the best group to help, > even though it doesn't seem to be a problem exclusively with > Samba. > > I very much appreciate the suggestions so far, and thanks in > advance for any further help you folks can give. :) > > Benny > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Always carry a short length of fibre-optic cable. If > you get lost, then you can drop it on the ground, wait > ten minutes, and ask the backhoe operator how to get > back to civilization. -Alan Frame > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
