There's no Hardy involved here, though. Jemdos is using 6.06 and 7.04.
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First, not A neither B could get the computer name of each other. In both cases they were checking it *outside* my lan. Both computer have a "dns proxy = no" statement which theoretically "prevent(s) nmbd to search for NetBIOS names through DNS" but, alas, they kept looking outside.
I don't understand this either. You may be right that the problem is related. Judging by wireshark, this doesn't happen on my set-up, but places-->network does create a bunch of MDNS requests. This is because of avahi, but it doesn't cause any problems for me.
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Second, to my amazement there is no way to set up correctly the domain master of the lan. It has to be A, but no matter how much I play with both smb.conf files, what I get is (a) B becomes the master or (b) there's no master. B is Ubuntu 6.06, A is 7.10.
This makes me think something is blocking traffic and preventing A from participating in Master Browser selection. Use these two commands to double check your firewall:
Code:
sudo iptables -t nat -n -L
The commands should output empty tables with policy ACCEPT, like so:
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
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One other change that might help-- in the globals section of your smb.conf files, set:
Code:
name resolve order = bcast host lmhosts wins
This change helped a number of people with browsing problems in this thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=685218
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I hope some of that helps. These problems can be difficult.
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