Samba: Windows can't see Linux

From: Robert Book (rbook1_at_mochamail.com)
Date: 07/24/03 

Date: 23 Jul 2003 22:59:10 -0700

I have a Windows 98SE box and a Red Hat 7.2 box with Samba 2.2.8a.

The Linux box has no problem seeing the Windows box, mounting shares,
etc.
The Windows box has no problem seeing the Linux box for non-Samba
purposes (ping, ssh, etc.) But, the Windows box can't see the Linux
box in Network Neighborhood, and can't access any shares.

I went through the "troubleshooting" chapter on samba.org, and found
that the nmb test fails. That is,

    nmblookup -B 192.168.5.255 RH72

does not find the RH72 box -- even when that command is run on the
RH72 box itself!

Changing the IP in that command from the "broadcast" IP to RH72'2 IP
does give the correct response, and "smbclient -L //RH72" produces a
correct list of shares.

So, it seems that RH72 is not responding when queried on the broadcast
IP.

How can I fix this?

(I've already tried invoking nmbd with the "-B" option, but that
didn't work.)

Thanks!

--Robert

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