RE: GLUG: Samba server missing

["Gay, Benjamin CA" <BenG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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	I suspect that it is infact a Windows networking issue. For that
little list
	of all the machines in network neighbour hood to be generated,
windows needs
	have a browse-master on the network. NT based networks elects a
machine on
	the network to be browse master, win9x  machines try to elect
themselves.
	Normally the oldest, slowest machine with the faulty network card
gets
	elected. If you have an NT PDC make sure the samba machine is added
to the
	SERVER MANAGER list, this will force the server to refresh the
browse
	master. If you have a win9x network (peer-peer) there is a setting (
some
	where in the undocumented depths of the OS ) that will force the
selected
	machine to always act as browse master.
	I hope that this is correct and helpful.
</Snip!>

What environment are you running in? The reason why I ask is that you should
only allow specific machines to ever be a browse master. This can get even
more fun if you have some funny filtering in place. Typically your PDC, BDC
should only ever be your browse master, back browse master. You can force
this in the registry of the machines (just search on browse master on
TechNet). Your clients should not be browse masters, also machines that are
optimized for a specific task (say a database) should not be browse masters.

Are you running WINS in your environment?

Let me know if I can be of help.

Benjamin