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Date:      Sun, 3 Aug 2014 13:10:48 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        User questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: PC Not Visible On Other Machines
Message-ID:  <20140803111048.GA44474@slackbox.erewhon.home>
In-Reply-To: <20140803061702.36b42de9@scorpio>
References:  <20140803061702.36b42de9@scorpio>

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On Sun, Aug 03, 2014 at 06:17:02AM -0400, Jerry wrote:
> Sun, 3 Aug 2014 06:14:32 -0400
>=20
> FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p7
>=20
> =EF=BB=BFThis is the first time this has ever happened that I am aware of=
=2E I tried
> Googling but found nothing related to it.
>=20
> Yesterday, my MTA, Postfix stop working because it could not get SASL
> authentication. That was because dovecot had failed to start. Dovecot fai=
led
> to start because it could not find its =E2=80=9CPEM=E2=80=9D files. It co=
uld not find its
> =E2=80=9CPEM=E2=80=9D files because the =E2=80=9C/etc/ssl=E2=80=9D direct=
ory was gone. I have no idea how
> that happened. I recreated the directory and the =E2=80=9CPEM=E2=80=9D fi=
les and that fixed
> the Dovecot/Postfix problem. Now, I have another problem. My machine no
> longer shows up in the network listing on any of my Windows machines. I h=
ave
> one Win 8.1 and two Win 7 machines and on all of them, the FreeBSD machin=
e is
> gone. I did a complete reboot of every one of them but the problem contin=
ues.
> I made sure that Samba was working so that does no appear to be the probl=
em.
> If I manually enter the machine name in the address bar on a Windows mach=
ine;
> i.e., \\MyPC, I can access it.
>=20
> This makes no sense. Other than having to do a complete reinstall of Free=
BSD,
> something I have had to do in the past when things got totally F/U, is th=
ere
> something I should check first?

Directories do not just disappear. If you are sure you didn't accidentally
delete them the directories in question, use e.g. sysutils/smartmontools to
check the health of your harddisk, and do a full fsck on your filesystems.


Roland
--=20
R.F.Smith                                   http://rsmith.home.xs4all.nl/
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