SInce upgrading to 4.5 final, when I open Windows Explorer in Windows the TOWER drive no longer shows automatically.

If I type \\Tower then I can see it.

What am I missing?

 

This is very strange as it has been working perfectly for months

 

Did you make sure the unRAID server is in the same windows workgroup as the other machines?

 

It sort of sounds like previously you created a custom SAMBA share called TOWER. Did you recreate it under 4.5 final via the smb-extra.conf file?

Yes it is in the same workgroup. I have not changed any settings since updating to 4.5 final

Where is the config file you mentioned? I do not see it on my flash drive at all.

Thx

I have the same problem. When i reinstall Windows7 everything works as it should, i can see tower in my network neighbourhood. But after a week or so of regular usage it only shows when i refresh and wait a few minutes, then few days later it doesn't show anymore even if i wait for hours. I can access my shares when i type them in explorer so it's not really a problem but it's a just inconvenient.

http://scottiestech.info/2009/02/14/how-to-determine-the-master-browser-in-a-windows-workgroup/

 

One of the PCs on you LAN is the "master browser" and responsible for periodically querying and updating all the other PCs on your LAN's network neighborhood.

 

At one time, when i looked at my network, the master browser was a old laptop that was connected through a wireless link.  Clearly, that was not the most efficient lookup.  I then enabled the "Local master: YES" feature in unRAID's settings page.  It now shows as the master browser when I issue the

nbtstat -a tower

command on my windows PC from a DOS command window.

 

You might want to look at which machine on your LAN is the master-browser (technique in link above)

 

You can query the LAN from a Linux command prompt on the unRAID server. 

Type

nmblookup -M workgroup_name

(where workgroup_name = the name of your workgroup on your LAN)

 

It will return the IP address of the master browser.

 

Joe L.

More info here:

http://onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/excerpt/samba_chap7/index2.html

 

 

That helped a lot Joe.

Thx

I also have a similarly related issue.

 

My network has a windows home server acting as master browser and the unraid server is set to localmaster=no. When I have disk shares visible network discovery works fine on my windows 7 machines but as soon as I hide the disks and only show the user shares it breaks discovery.

 

Any ideas?

There seems to be a lot of this recently.  Couldn't unRAID be configured by default to be the local master/master browser?  Is there any reason for it not to be set this way?

Couldn't unRAID be configured by default to be the local master/master browser?

 

In order for unRAID to win the election for becoming the master browser on your local network,

you need to set it up to advertise a os level higher than that of your windows server.

For example, I have the following lines in my smb-extra.conf

local master = Yes
preferred master = Yes
os level = 65

 

 

Couldn't unRAID be configured by default to be the local master/master browser?

 

In order for unRAID to win the election for becoming the master browser on your local network,

you need to set it up to advertise a os level higher than that of your windows server.

For example, I have the following lines in my smb-extra.conf

local master = Yes
preferred master = Yes
os level = 65

 

 

 

Do we have a smb-extra.conf or do I need to create it?

you need to create it...

Put it in the config folder on the flash drive. (same folder as the "go" script)

 

Joe L.

 

If you have to create it, then make sure you read this first:

http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=FAQ#Why_do_my_scripts_have_problems_with_end-of-lines.3F