[mythtv-users] OT: Samba (?) Issue

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Kirk,

Friday, October 9, 2015, 5:24:07 PM, you wrote:



> On 10/9/2015 7:01 AM, Bert Haskins wrote:
>> After bringing up a new myth box (mythbuntu 14.04, backend/nas only, 
>> HDHR Prime ) I have a mythtv backend that is largely invisible to both 
>> windows and linux.
>> I can see "WORKGROUP" but nothing in it.
>> smb.conf seems to be OK and video and recordings are 777.
>>
>> It does seem to be OK on Android apps
>> All off my apps can see an Asus server on my net with no problems.
>> BTW I can't find wins.dat on this box.
>> BTW2 I wish that there was a wiki entry on this problem.
>> I will volunteer to do the work if others will beta it for me.
>> Thanks,

> Looking through my setup, I realized I wasn't running nmbd, the name 
> service daemon. I was only running smbd, the file server. Because my 
> file servers are at fixed IP addresses and I have local DNS setup this
> wasn't a problem. I could still browse on my Windows machines to 
> \\server1\area1 or whatever.

> So, are you running nmbd? It's generally setup as a service separate 
> from smbd.
> _______________________________________________

If you don't run the wins server it will use the present msWindows
machines. Unless you have native msDS, browsing will use netbios as
served by every windows machine.
Wether you run the wins server is a setting in smb.conf


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