SMB Browsing Error - (WBEL: Fedora RPM's to install XFce)

[Paul M. Bucalo]

On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 07:53, Paul M. Bucalo wrote:
> The Fedora RPM's for XFce-4.0.3.1 were installed on WBEL 3.0-fixed. I am
> finding that I cannot browse or connect to my MDK 9.1 Samba server or
> shares, respectively. The error that given in the 'xffm' monitor is as
> follows:
> 
> Looking for master browsers...
> XFSAMBA> nmblookup -M -- -
> queryiNg __MSBROWSE__ on 192.168.1.255
> name_query failed to find name __MSBROWSE__#01
> 
> Nautilus browses and connects with normalcy. 
> 
> Workstations and server are statically assigned and all '/etc/hosts'
> files have the server's IP and host name included. Nothing has changed
> to the network outside of this recent WBEL installation. BTW...I have a
> Fedora workstation up and running and it browses and connects as
> expected. 
> 
> Has anyone experienced this in WBEL? Could this be because I used
> Fedora-favored RPM's to install XFce? Any ideas as to where to find my
> solution?

Here's a follow-up to this...

I decided to see what was happening in the background: I ran 'xffm' from
a terminal window. There were warnings about needing to set SMB_CODESET
to ISO-8859-1, but nothing else regarding the browse or connection
phase. Then, the unexpected happen: 'xffm' was able to browse the Samba
server and connect! I exited out of 'xffm' and terminal window, and
tried to browse/connect using 'xffm' run from the XFce panel. It worked!
Go figure.

I'm glad that the problem has been resolved, but I still would like to
know if anyone has any idea(s) as to why it happened in the first place.

Thanks,

Paul