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

[edscott wilson garcia]

El vie, 27-02-2004 a las 07:20, Paul M. Bucalo escribió:
> 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.

It looks like a transient problem with the smb network. At the moment
xffm first queried there was no master browser to be found. After a
while a master browser became available --and so with workgroup
information. Even if no master browser is available, you can connect to
a remote smb node using the "goto" function towards //computer_name.
This will place an icon for the remote computer and you can open it.


> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paul
> 
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