Samba problem? Macintosh (Panther) can't see Windows PCs

[Bill McGonigle]

On Jun 1, 2005, at 22:24, Benjamin Scott wrote:

> I believe *BSD has their own smbfs, independent of Samba and Linux.  I 
> expect Apple's BSD-derived OS either uses that, or Apple's own code.  
> Practical upshot: I suspect Samba isn't going to apply much here.

Right, Apple forked somebody's BSD kernel module.  It has varying 
degrees of success depending on which version of OSX you're on, which 
type of Windows network you're on (domain/AD), and (not mac specific) 
how well the switch handles broadcast traffic.  So far Tiger seems to 
handle this best, but I've hit a snarl with the GUI window not updating 
properly (the kernel piece is OK as it looks right at the command 
line).

Like Ben mentioned, I've had best luck configuring a samba server to 
force and win elections so that remains stable.  That doesn't stop the 
occasional XP Home machine from announcing itself as Master Browser 
anyway.

-Bill
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