I've had a similar problem. In my case it was falling out of WINS. I fixed it by stopping and starting nmbd each day. Here is my crontab entry:
#Refresh the WINS entry for this Samba Server #First kill the nmbd process 2 2 * * * kill `/usr/bin/cat /usr/local/samba/var/locks/nmbd.pid` #One hour and one minute later restart nmbd 3 3 * * * /usr/local/samba/sbin/nmbd -D Jules Colding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/14/2004 01:47 AM To: Samba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: [Samba] Invisible samba server Hi, My samba server "linux-1" (samba-3.0.2-7.FC1) has suddenly become invisible from all windows client. ...... -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba