If you saw my previous post about bad sorting when viewing network servers in the Finder, you might notice something missing in this screenshot: all the PC’s on the network or Samba servers disappeared after I woke my computer from sleep this morning.
The only thing I could find in the system log was this cryptic error message:
11/13/07 9:25:49 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.samba.smbd[11536]) Stray process with PGID equal to this dead job: PID 11538 PPID 1 smbd
It’s the Finder’s fault. Relaunched Finder using the Force Quit dialog box and voilà , the PC’s and Samba servers have returned.
[UPDATE]
I have solved this issue. On my computer I currently host two IP addresses through my Ethernet adapter. It appears that the Samba client would randomly choose which IP address it would use for nmblookup calls. Once I deactivated the second IP, leaving only my primary IP on the LAN (where the PCs and Samba servers live), the servers appear AND they all appear to work now. It’s still a bug, but not related to the Finder.
