[SGVLUG] Is CIFS/Samba broken?

Joel Witherspoon joel.witherspoon at gmail.com
Fri Oct 26 18:23:57 PDT 2007


Browser election might be the problem. Wireless APs seem to cause Windows to
generate them excessively. You may want to try nbtstat -c to see if your
workgroup appears. Have you sniffed traffic to see what's going on?

On 10/26/07, Arthur Baldwin <eengnerd at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> At work I'm using a Windows XP Pro machine and a Fedora 7 machine.
> Recently we added a wireless router (Linksys WRT300N) to our network.  After
> that, when I'm using Windows Explorer to view "My Network Places", I can't
> see all of the PC's that I should be seeing.  By opening up a DOS window and
> using "net view" I can see the machines I want, but in "My Network Places"
> they don't appear!  How is this possible?  I know Windows is flaky, but this
> takes the cake.
>
> Arthur
>
>
>
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