Samba Shares

[Reko]

I have samba set up and running on my web server. I have some shares defined, and I can see and sccess them from my W2K server, YAY!
My question is, how come when I go to My Network Places, my web server (named NVETIS) doesn't show up when I go to show entire netowrk, microsoft windows network. If I search for the computer name, it will find it, but it won't show up in microsoft windows network like my W2K server does? Is there a way to fix this, I hate having to search for it all the time! Thanks.

[Big_Jeff Stud]

You're asking why does your Linux machine running Apache web server not show up in Network Places?

Or are you asking why can "I not see my Samba server in Network Places?" Samba and Apache are on the same box right?

[Big_Jeff Stud]

Okay I think I see what you're asking here.

You just want your Samba server to show up in My network places like your Win2K Server right?

Well first, check your smb.conf file and make sure that where it says "workgroup", it is the same as your Win2K server. If your running Active Directory, then make sure "workgroup" is the same as your Active Directory domain's Netbios name. You can find your domain or workgroup name is Win2K by right-clicking on My Computer, go to properties and then the Network Identification tab.

If that checks out OK, then check that your WINS Server settings in smb.conf are correct.

This just sounds like one of those name resolution problems that WINS and NetBIOS are famous for.

[mikehoward111]

Is your share set to browseable = yes?