Description of problem: I Can't browse windows network immediately after logon, just about 5 minutes later. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): All system is updated to most current rpms with yum (11/15/2006) How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Just after logon, open nautilus and go network 2. Nautilus shows a "windows network" icon 3. If you click on that icon I can't see no servers 4. open terminal and "tail -f /var/log/messages 5. Past about 5 minutes I get a message from nmbd sayng my computer is a local master browser. 6. Since this message I can browse the network and see all windows and samba servers and shares. Actual results: I can only browse my network after nmbd forces an election and my machine becomes a local master browser Expected results: I should be able to browse windows network as soon I logon Additional info: If I use smbclient -L on console I can see all servers and shares even before I can browse on nautilus My machine is connected to a windows 2000 network (AD). SELinux is disabled.I have set iptables to accept netbios traffic (137-139 and 445 ports). Authentication and user information (authentication dialog) are set to use winbind and smb. Winbind and samba are running OK. My machine is joined to domain (ads). I edited gdm and login files on /etc/pam.d to include pam_mkhomedir so any windows user can logon on my machine and homedir is automatically created.
Is a wins server setup in smb.conf?
Hi alexl, thank you for your interest. Yes, there is a wins server set in my smb.conf and BTW, the wins server is a Linux/Samba box and it works for all my network (about 1500 machines). I'm creating an attachment (environment.txt) with a fragment of /var/log/messages (seven last lines), /etc/samba.smb.conf, /etc/nsswitch.conf, /etc/pam.d/login, /etc/pam.d/gdm,/etc/sysconfig/authconfig, /etc/sysconfig/samba. I have supressed almost all comments from these files to ease reading. Just a few comments about the attached file: 1. I just turn on the computer and it was not necessary to login and six minutes after the last boot message, my box has become a local master browser. I had previously and incorrectly assumed it was after login just because the normal practice is login as soon as prompt/gdm asks for. This time I boot the machine and returned about 30 minutes later (see the fragment of /var/log/messages) 2. My smb.conf is really configured to start local browser elections, but if I had set it not to start the elections, network browsing is not possible even 20 minutes later. Even smbtree does not retrieve anything but smbclient works normally and I can access all my windows/samba shares on console. Nautilus and smbtree work only if my machine becomes a local master browser. 3.On /etc/nsswitch.conf I had to comment out some lines with winbind option in order to autofs works. During boot, autofs service is started long before winbind. 4. I have changed login and gdm files in /etc/pam.d just to get automatic creation of homedirs for network (AD authenticated users).
Created attachment 141268 [details] my current samba environment
I solved the problem of 5-6 minutes delay for browsing setting preferred master as yes on smb.conf. That forces election immediately after smbd and nmbd start. I think this bug may be marked as solved or notabug. Thank you!