Samba Share - HA missing from Win File Explorer Network

Third party integrations
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For the last several days the Home Assistant Samba share has not shown in any of my Windows(10/11) File Explorer Network views. However, the Samba shares are accessible by either adding network locations or drive mappings.

This is the error I’m seeing in the Samba log:

INFO: Profiling support unavailable in this build.
become_local_master_fail2: failed to register name CORRALES<1d> on subnet 192.168.1.11. Failed to become a local master browser.
standard_fail_register: Failed to register/refresh name CORRALES<1d> on subnet 192.168.1.11

If I look at previous logs I find this statement:

INFO: Profiling support unavailable in this build.

Samba name server AMERIDROID is now a local master browser for workgroup CORRALES on subnet 192.168.1.11

AMERIDROID is my Home Assistant’s name. Home Assistant is running on a dedicated Odroid N2+ device.

Samba Share version 12.3.3
Home Assistant:

  • Core 2025.1.2
  • Supervisor 2024.12.3
  • Operating System 14.1
  • Frontend 20250109.0

Any ideas on what to fix?

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Have you configured your firewall on the Windows machines for Samba shares?

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I’m sure they were configured because it’s been working for at least a year until a few days ago. Perhaps a Windows update made a change unknownn to me. I’ll take a look.

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Hi Philip D,

there was an update to that today, see if this was on the fixed list…

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That was 12.3.3 that I have installed. My issue was not on the changelog, that I could see, and it didn’t resolve it.

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Samba Share 12.4.0 was released today but that didn’t help remedy my issue.

What I did find is, if I enter \\ameridrod into the file explorer address bar it will open the Samba share on my HA instance and then it adds ameridroid under Network. So that was what I was looking for. I still don’t know why it isn’t listed automatically and why I’m getting this error in the Samba log.

become_local_master_fail2: failed to register name CORRALES<1d> on subnet 192.168.1.11. Failed to become a local master browser.

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As I expected though this will disappear when the Explorer is closed and reopened.