windows 2000 machines cant see samba

[Alex Snow]

I found this stuff in my syslog related to samba. could this mean 
anything about the problem I'm having? 

Nov  2 20:52:38 h14me nmbd[363]: [2003/11/02 20:52:38, 0] 
nmbd/nmbd_browsesync.c:find_domain_master_name_query_fail(358)
Nov  2 20:52:38 h14me nmbd[363]:   find_domain_master_name_query_fail:
Nov  2 20:52:38 h14me nmbd[363]:   Unable to find the Domain Master 
Browser name WORKGROUP<1b> for the workgroup WORKGROUP.
Nov  2 20:52:38 h14me nmbd[363]:   Unable to sync browse lists in this 
workgroup.
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 08:49:38PM -0500, Alex Snow wrote:
> I just tried refreshing the window when in the 'my network places' but 
> that didn't work...tried directly contacting the machine still 
> nothing. though when I run nbtstat to see what names it has with the 
> -r it doesn't give any but says that 1 was resolved by the wins server 
> and 1 was resolved by broadcast.
> I even took down my wins server but that didn't do anything either...
> On 
> Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 08:15:38PM -0500, Rejean Proulx wrote:
> > I found that with Win2k I had to hit refresh several times after selecting
> > entire network.  You might try selecting run and typing \\machinename\
> > sometimes it finds it even if it doesn't when selecting entire network.  I
> > battle with this with my laptop all the time.  I find it works best if I
> > just map a network drive.  It is a pain when you boot and it doesn't find
> > it, but it really works better.
> > 
> >  Rejean Proulx
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> > MSN is: rejp at rogers.com
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> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 7:47 PM
> > Subject: windows 2000 machines cant see samba
> > 
> > 
> > > Hi all. I have two different versions of windows running on my networked
> > > pc's. the older ones that cant handle anything newer are running win 98
> > > se. These machines can see the shares I have on my linux box fine and I
> > > can mount shares on them from linux. On the faster machines I have
> > > win2k. This cant see the samba machines nor can the linux box see them.
> > > Does anyone have any ideas why this happens? all the machines are
> > > connected to the same lan.
> > > I'm running samba 2.2.8 slackware 9.1.
> > >
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> > > Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?
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Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?