September 13, 20214 yr This is accompanied by " Unable to sync the browse lists in this workgroup". I'm guessing I'm missing something in my SMB configuration. My home network only comprises 2 other desktop windows PC's and a couple laptops. I'm not sure what I'm missing. Is a WINS server to be set up on one of my Windows boxes? Thanks for any suggestions.
September 16, 20214 yr Author Well, no one chimed in on this post yet, but I'll share what I did to mitigate this, in case someone else has to deal with it. First, I recommend reading the SAMBA manual for configuration suggestions. You can find it here: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/User_Documentation Since my server is standalone, I originally thought it would help to enable "local master election" in the workgroup settings. This is what is causing the interval polling. The server isn't finding ITSELF. I haven't found a proper configuration with Local Master enabled that doesn't return this behavior, so I simply disabled it. I also added the extra configuration of enabling a WINS server, however, and pointing and set my local windows machines' IPv4 settings to use it, and turned on netBIOS. Since then, it seems my computers are always showing in my network environment, and browsing shares seems more responsive.
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