From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Opera/8.02 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Description of problem: Cannot link Windows XP professional and Linux box on home wireless network since upgrading to FC4. Everything worked fine prior to upgrade. After troubleshooting using Google-supplied guidance, have determined network is working (pings both ways), smb seems configured correctly and all desired services are offered, Service Configuration (GUI screen) reports smb is configured to start at boot, and reports both daemons smbd and nmbd are running. However, Linux reports network consists of "Windows Network" with no stations signing in to the network. Windows box acts as if there is no Windows Network Neighborhood to connect into. In one troubleshooting page (http://www.rtr.com/ win95pak/sambadiag.htm) the first step of guided troubleshooting that fails relates to nmbd not being installed or not being configured correctly. However, this (old) guidance relates to v1.9.13 and I'm using v.3.0.14 ... so the step "issue the command 'nmbd -L ...' is no longer applicable. After reading the man page, I'm still not clear on how to replicate this step under v.3 .... As best I can relate, this problem is quite similar to the one I found reported under Bug 150582 "nmbd dies when windows client requests browse list" (March 2005) but the nmbd daemon isn't dying (I think), it's just sitting silently and failing to respond. In the mentioned troubleshooting guide, I have already performed the steps to confirm nmbd is listening on UDP port 137, so I don't think that's the problem. If guided, I can probably find and submit relevant log files, etc. Please tell me where to look. At present, since my home network runs from the Linux machine, I have no network services from my Windows clients' points of view. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Version 3.0.14a-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot up Linux FC 4 (or, nmbd Version 3.0.14a-2) 2. Attempt to connect to network with Windows machine Additional info:
This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd. Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and either update the target product or close it ? Thanks.
I have upgraded to Fedora Core 5 and no longer have the problem.