smb.conf on client machines, need help

[mstang1988]

I was experiencing issues once I rebooted my freenas machine where nothing would show up on the network as browsable but it was still accessible with an IP address. I tracked it down to another machine running Linux (XBMC) where it would take over master once my freenas machine went down and freenas could not recover from this and would just throw errors until I powered off the other machine, powered on freenas first.

Anyway, to resolve this I modified the smb.conf on the other machine by:
removed "preferred_master = yes"

domain master = no
preferred master = no
local master = no

These were all 'yes' prior. I no longer have the issues but I can no longer browse that machine on the network with it's netbios name but I can if I type in the IP address.

What am I doing wrong to make it browsable on the network and prevent it from becoming the master.

 

[cyberjock]

What error was the FreeNAS machine giving? This is a pretty unique situation.. not sure I've heard of this before...