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Muhnamana
Asked: 2012-02-08 17:37:41 +0800 CST

Network Computers Not Showing up

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Alright, 3 machines running, two using Ubuntu 11.10 and one on Mac OS X.

On the two Ubuntu machines, both have samba installed and configured on the same workgroup, "HOME".

On machine 1, I can see all networked machines. On machine 2, I can only see the Mac OS X machine. It doesn't show the other Ubuntu machine.

What am I missing on machine 2 to see all networked computers?

Any suggestions are welcome. I'm pretty much stumped.

networking samba 11.10

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    From the machine that is not visible, try doing the Ctrl+L then smb://localhost. You can connect to itself.

    Also, make sure that the smb service is running on the machine that you can't see.

    It might also be worth seeing if you have a firewall issue, turn off the firewalls on your machines to see if there is a difference.

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  2. For Samba/CIFS shares to be discoverable for all clients it is common that one of the servers acts as a WINS server. However if both are trying to be the master it might cause this kind of behaviour.

    Also iptables must be off or you should allow: 137/UDP 138/UDP 139/UDP 445/TCP

    These are the Samba/CIFS ports.

    Kind regards,
    Jochen

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  3. I added these lines:

    os level = 99
wins support = yes
name resolve order = wins lmhosts hosts bcast
domain master = yes
preferred master = yes

    to my global samba configuration all the computers in my network popped right up in windows network.

    found the info here:

    http://whereofwecannotspeak.wordpress.com/2007/10/24/samba-as-a-wins-server-in-a-windows-peer-network/

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