Patrol02
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I went to all my windows machines and made sure that they will not attempt to become a master, and they don't now. I monitored it a bit and I see that my freenas machine always wins elections and is always a master.
However, freenas is not visible on windows machines under "computer" node. It is accessible via \\freenas though.
In contrast on MacOS I can see "freenas" under "shared" in Finder, but I cannot connect to it. When I try it says that "there was a problem" and "the server may not exist or it is unavailable at this time".
Trying to access it via "smb://freenas" is also unsuccessful, however if I use the IP address it works.
Is it a problem with FreeNAS/FreeBSD Samba implementation/configuration? I have a couple of linux machines here at home (openelec, ubuntu) and when I run samba daemon on them it works as a charm...
My SMB configuration includes the following:
but, again, being a master doesn't seem to help with this issue.
However, freenas is not visible on windows machines under "computer" node. It is accessible via \\freenas though.
In contrast on MacOS I can see "freenas" under "shared" in Finder, but I cannot connect to it. When I try it says that "there was a problem" and "the server may not exist or it is unavailable at this time".
Trying to access it via "smb://freenas" is also unsuccessful, however if I use the IP address it works.
Is it a problem with FreeNAS/FreeBSD Samba implementation/configuration? I have a couple of linux machines here at home (openelec, ubuntu) and when I run samba daemon on them it works as a charm...
My SMB configuration includes the following:
Code:
domain master = yes preferred master = yes os level = 128 wins support = yes
but, again, being a master doesn't seem to help with this issue.
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