I am a new samba user and am searching for some help on a few things. Any help / advice on the following is appreciated. We have a small network with 95/98/2000 workstations, one Redhat 6.0 server running Samba 2.07 and one Novell 5.0 box that we use as a dns and dhcp server as well as a firewall. There is one workgroup, ET and no domains. I want samba to be the local master browser for the wg ET. I just installed, configured (I thought) and started smbd and nmbd, checked the logs and noticed the following in nmb.log. Should I concern myself with these and if so which ones? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [2001/02/20 16:58:16, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(747) Incorrect program usage - is the command line correct? [2001/02/20 16:58:39, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(747) Incorrect program usage - is the command line correct? [2001/02/20 19:39:44, 1] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(757) Netbios nameserver version 2.0.7 started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1994-1998 [2001/02/20 19:39:44, 0] nmbd/asyncdns.c:start_async_dns(150) started asyncdns process 2598 [2001/02/20 21:10:03, 0] nmbd/nmbd_become_lmb.c:become_local_master_stage2(405) ***** Samba name server YODA is now a local master browser for workgroup ET on subnet 10.0.0.3 ***** [2001/02/20 21:10:03, 0] nmbd/nmbd_browsesync.c:find_domain_master_name_query_fail(360) find_domain_master_name_query_fail: Unable to find the Domain Master Browser name ET<1b> for the workgroup ET. Unable to sync browse lists in this workgroup. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (The unable to find Domain Master repeats at regular intervals. ) And from smbd: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [2001/02/20 19:39:37, 1] smbd/server.c:main(641) smbd version 2.0.7 started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1992-1998 [2001/02/20 19:39:37, 1] smbd/files.c:file_init(216) file_init: Information only: requested 10000 open files, 1014 are available. [2001/02/20 23:19:52, 0] lib/util_sock.c:set_socket_options(151) Failed to set socket option SO_KEEPALIVE (Error Bad file descriptor) [2001/02/20 23:19:52, 0] lib/util_sock.c:set_socket_options(151) Failed to set socket option TCP_NODELAY (Error Bad file descriptor) [2001/02/20 23:19:52, 0] lib/util_sock.c:set_socket_options(151) Failed to set socket option SO_RCVBUF (Error Bad file descriptor) [2001/02/20 23:19:52, 0] lib/util_sock.c:set_socket_options(151) Failed to set socket option SO_SNDBUF (Error Bad file descriptor) log.smb (END) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The socket options are confusing as I thought I was using the defaults. and lastly my samba.conf: # Date: 2001/02/21 08:56:48 # Global parameters [global] coding system client code page = 850 workgroup = ET netbios name = YODA netbios aliases netbios scope server string = Samba 2.0.7 at %h interfaces = eth0 bind interfaces only = No security = USER encrypt passwords = No update encrypted = No allow trusted domains = Yes hosts equiv min password length = 5 map to guest = Never null passwords = No password server smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd root directory = / passwd program = /bin/passwd passwd chat = *new*password* %n\n *new*password* %n\n *changed* passwd chat debug = No username map password level = 0 username level = 0 unix password sync = No restrict anonymous = No use rhosts = No debug level = 1 syslog = 1 syslog only = No log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 5000 debug timestamp = Yes debug hires timestamp = No debug pid = No debug uid = No protocol = NT1 read bmpx = No read raw = Yes write raw = Yes nt smb support = Yes nt pipe support = Yes nt acl support = Yes announce version = 4.2 announce as = NT max mux = 50 max xmit = 65535 name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast max ttl = 259200 max wins ttl = 518400 min wins ttl = 21600 time server = No change notify timeout = 60 deadtime = 0 getwd cache = Yes keepalive = 300 lpq cache time = 10 max disk size = 0 max open files = 10000 read prediction = No read size = 16384 shared mem size = 1048576 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 stat cache size = 50 load printers = Yes printcap name = /etc/printcap printer driver file = /etc/printers.def strip dot = No character set mangled stack = 50 stat cache = Yes domain groups domain admin group domain guest group domain admin users domain guest users machine password timeout = 604800 add user script delete user script logon script logon path = \\%N\%U\profile logon drive logon home = \\%N\%U domain logons = No os level = 65 lm announce = Auto lm interval = 60 preferred master = No local master = Yes domain master = No browse list = Yes dns proxy = No wins proxy = No wins server wins support = Yes wins hook kernel oplocks = Yes ole locking compatibility = Yes oplock break wait time = 10 smbrun = /usr/bin/smbrun config file auto services lock directory = /var/lock/samba default service message command dfree command valid chars remote announce remote browse sync socket address = 0.0.0.0 homedir map time offset = 0 unix realname = No NIS homedir = No source environment panic action comment path revalidate = No username guest account = nobody invalid users valid users admin users read list write list force user force group writeable = No create mask = 0744 force create mode = 00 security mask = -1 force security mode = -1 directory mask = 0755 force directory mode = 00 directory security mask = -1 force directory security mode = -1 inherit permissions = No guest only = No guest ok = No only user = No hosts allow hosts deny status = Yes max connections = 0 min print space = 0 strict sync = No sync always = No write cache size = 0 printable = No postscript = No printing = bsd print command = lpr -r -P%p %s lpq command = lpq -P%p lprm command = lprm -P%p %j lppause command lpresume command queuepause command queueresume command printer printer driver = NULL printer driver location default case = lower case sensitive = No preserve case = Yes short preserve case = Yes mangle case = No mangling char = ~ hide dot files = Yes delete veto files = No veto files hide files veto oplock files map system = No map hidden = No map archive = Yes mangled names = Yes mangled map browseable = Yes blocking locks = Yes fake oplocks = No locking = Yes oplocks = Yes level2 oplocks = No oplock contention limit = 2 strict locking = No share modes = Yes copy include preexec preexec close = No postexec root preexec root preexec close = No root postexec available = Yes volume fstype = NTFS set directory = No wide links = Yes follow symlinks = Yes dont descend magic script magic output delete readonly = No dos filetimes = No dos filetime resolution = No fake directory create times = No [homes] comment = Home Directories writeable = Yes browseable = No [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba printable = Yes browseable = No [cdrom] comment = Cd Contents path = /mnt/cdrom