Adam Nielsen wrote: >>The server is running as a virtual machine in Xen and connects to the >>network over a bridged interface (I mention this because it may be >>relevant to the problem). > > > A lot of network browsing relies on broadcast packets, and there's a > good chance these broadcasts aren't making it through to the nmbd > process running on the server. Use ethereal or some similar packet > sniffer on the same machine as nmbd and verify that these broadcasts are > reaching the server. In many virtual machine cases you have to > manually configure the broadcasts to be forwarded on to the virtual > machine. > > I would've thought WINS would solve this, but then again if broadcasts > aren't getting through then who knows what other traffic is being lost.
I thought WINS would do it too, but there was no joy. I don't know how many times I hit F5. Would these broadcast issues/browsing failures explain all of the problems that I described? -S -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
