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<DIV>I have a Linux machine (Mandrake 8.0) running on a Windows network with
Samba. The Linux machine shows up in network neighborhood on Windows machines,
but every so often it disappears. To get it to re-appear, I have to restart
Samba twice. </DIV>
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<DIV>During the first restart, the "status" indicator says that NMB fails to
shut down, everything else is ok, but the Linux machine still does not show up
in Windows network neighborhood. However, if a windows machine has mapped the
Linux machine, it is still accessible through the mapped drive. A second restart
of samba is neccessary to get the Linux machine to show up in windows network
neighborhood. </DIV>
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<DIV>I am guessing that the NMB service is shutting down automatically for some
reason...does this seem accurate? What can I do to fix this? The Linux machine
is set-up to update a photolibrary via cron and as a local web server. Any
help/suggestions is appreciated!</DIV>
<DIV><BR>Rodney Kanno<BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>