C:\>net view
System error 6118 has occurred.
The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available
The above error message has been driving me up a wall today. In a nutshell no work station on the LAN is able to access the list of available works stations that are part of Workgroup. This is usually done through Windows Explorer, My Network Places, Entire Network, Microsoft Windows Network, Workgroup (from the command line, "net view").
Now accessing mapped drives works fine and so does connecting to a share by entering \\target_share. It appears that no server or work station is delegated as a master browser and maintaining this list.
I searched around for answers and came across
this thread which contains quite a few recommendations, but none worked. And of those recommendations the majority applied to a single computer having an issue, not every work station on the LAN.
The only remaining thing I haven't tried at this point is seeing what happens when the majority of work systems is powered down at the end of the day. After all this only started happening recently so some change must of been introduced to cause this.
EDIT:
As it turns out it was the CentOS box. A quick adjustment to the smb.conf and all is running smoothly again.