On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 10:24, antonio montagnani wrote: > If I start the Network server I get this message > > Impossibile mostrare «smb:///», perché non è stato trovato nessun host > «(null)». Controllare che sia corretto il nome o le impostazioni del proxy. > > that translated: > > Not possible to show smb:/// as it was not possible to find any host (null). Please check name and settings of proxy. > > Where shall I check??? > In my experience, this was always because there was no master browser. Setting my OS level in smb.conf to something insanely high (like 999) seemed to always fix the problem. This way, your machine forces an election and wins it (rigs it!!) and becomes the master browser, and then smb:// works.
