I've got a Samba server on Fedora Core 3 which is fine to browse to and works ok, so I decided to try a debian server as well, I set up a very simple Debian stable system and samba, and the storage share is working fine, but I can't browse to it? I can open the share by ip address, so it seems to be a Netbios problem. I don't understand because I've been going over and over the smb.conf and comparing the two. The only difference is that Debian is using domain authentication and I used SWAT on it instead of hand editing like I did on Fedora. The smb.conf is shown below:
# Samba config file created using SWAT
# from 10.137.15.30 (10.137.15.30)
# Date: 2005/06/01 17:38:23
# Global parameters
[global]
browseable = yes
workgroup = MYDOMAIN
server string = %h server
security = DOMAIN
encrypt passwords = Yes
obey pam restrictions = Yes
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n .
syslog = 0
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 1000
domain master = False
dns proxy = No
invalid users = root
admin users = hari
socket options = TCP_NODELAY
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /tmp
create mask = 0700
printable = Yes
browseable = No
[STORAGE]
browseable = yes
public = yes
comment = Storage
path = /STORAGE
valid users = me
read only = No
Also, on Fedora, I've noticed, I can't ping any windows systems by hostname either, although they can ping me by hostname. Both systems have nmbd and smbd running. Both these machines have their hostnames set as well as other general networking settings(ip,gw,netmask,broadcast etc). I must have missed something. Anyone help?