[ILUG] Samba & Win95

[Barry Redmond]

I know this is really a Win95 problem, but the other half of the issue is 
Samba so I'm using that to claim that I'm close-to-topic here.  My 
reputation within my own family for fixing stuff is dropping rapidly.  I 
need to fix this one soon if I'm to continue having meals cooked, 
clothes washed, tax affairs put in order, life organised...   :-)

I have 3 Windows machines (2 95, 1 98) and a small Linux machine 
running Samba.  Why would one of the W95 machines not see samba 
resources at all, while the other 2 Win machines see everything?  The 
problem machine can see resources on the other Win machines, but 
not on samba.  The 2 working Win machines see resources on samba 
and on the problem machine.  Dumping nmbd status shows that 
samba is master of a workgroup that contains the 2 working Win 
machines but not the problem one.

I've gone through the network setup on the problem machine with a 
large magnifying glass and made everything the same as the others, 
but still no luck.  It seems to me that the problem machine is refusing 
to run Netbios over tcp/ip, while pretending that it's doing it.  Tcp/ip 
itself is working fine (can telnet etc).

One other clue:  if I run nbstat on the problem machine I get an error 
that it can't access the nbt driver (can't remember exact wording).  
Looks like something may be missing.  But what exactly?

Barry Redmond