I had (and still do, really) a similar problem. Has to do with nmb failing to respond. When they disappear, try running "smbcontrol nmbd ping" on the samba server and see if it responds with pong.
I have not yet figured out why nmbd stops responding. The error logs have offered no clue. BTW, samba is running on SuSe SLES 9. Larry -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Philip Washington Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 2:51 PM To: samba Subject: [Samba] Servers disappear from Network neighborhood I am using Samba-PDC-LDAP with samba-3.0.20b-1. On my file servers I am using samba-3.0.10-1.4. I'm not sure exactly what is happening but every couple of weeks the file servers disappear form network neighborhood. I checked browstat on my Windows system and it points to my PDC as the master browser and I checked the wins.dat file on my PDC and the systems were there. I did not check the browse.dat file before correcting this latest problem (by restarting the nmbd service on the systems in question). Is there a relationship between samba versions and systems dropping out of network neighborhood? What does this indicate when a system drops out of network neighborhood, is it not reporting correctly to the master browser? -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
