Samba not browing in windows explorer[solved]

insaan · n00b Joined: 26 Oct 2004 Posts: 72

Hello guys,

I have got my samba server as pdc run and it worked well. I could see it in a windows explorer and the linux users could login in the windows. Now I can't see samba server in windows explorer any more, but linux users can still log in the windows machines. I can ping from the samba server and it works. When I run
#smbclient -L localhost

I get the error
protocol negotiation failed

What should I do now, so that I can see the samba server in widows explorer?

Cheers

nobspangle · Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 5:26 pm Post subject:

Is the PDC configured as a wins server? If not add
wins support = yes
to the global section then on your windows machines make sure the address of the wins server is entered in the advanced tcp/ip properties

insaan · n00b Joined: 26 Oct 2004 Posts: 72

Thanks for your reply. It works now without "wins support = yes". I had a mistake in the line
name resolve order = wins bcast host

I removed bcast from the above line and it wirked!!