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Hi everyone!
I am having a problem with networking and my MacBook. I have created a location for my home, where i share a network with two laptops and two desktops, all of them with vista home premium except for one with ultimate. I have set them all up in the same Workgroup, some have dynamic IP and others static.
What I can do:
- I can connect to any of the computers on the network by typing smb://computerName/shareName/ and it loads fine.
- I can see the MacBook computer from my Vista machines.
What I can't do:
- My MacBook doesn't find any computers when I open the "network" section in finder, neither do they show in the finder sidebar. The only way i can connect to a specific computer is via typing the name in the connect to server as described before.
- I cant open my macbook shares from windows. Both my usernames and passwords are the same, but I can't access any shares on my macbook.
- I can't detect any printers on the network with the macbook. I have a share printer on a vista machine that is used by the others with no problem, but mac doesn't find it
I would appreciate any insight on this since i often connect into other networks (office, firiends etc,) and can never see their computers (even changing my workgroup)
Thanks in advance,
Ben

This sounds like a typical SMB issue on a network where no obvious master server exists.
I had similar problems with Linux, and it all stemmed from the poor auto-negotiation of which computer would be the master browser on the network. I ended up forcing one machine to become the master overall, and SMB browsing became far more robust.
As per a previous poster, this is done by altering the OS level in /etc/smb.conf. Man samba or smb.conf should point you in the right direction.
I'd recommend you fix your OSX machine to become the SMB master, saving all the negotiation and you'll soon find these machines appear in your list with no trouble at all.
Even better, I now run mDNS on all my computers and specifically advertise SMB as a service, along with the .device-info_ service, allowing me to assign a nice icon to each machine! its great when my linux mac mini actually shows up as a mac mini in finder
HTH
Maq

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