samba - Dec 2008 - get_domain_master_name_node_status_fail

The message below is appearing in my log file.
I wonder why nmbd thinks it needs to "do a status request"  to that IP
address?
It is another server here but does not run samba.
I have been trying to make is stop this without any luck so far.
Does anyone know how?
Thanks, Bill

Dec  4 08:27:43 apss nmbd[5048]: [2008/12/04 08:27:43, 0] 
nmbd/nmbd_browsesync.c:get_domain_master_name_node_status_fail(486)
Dec  4 08:27:44 apss nmbd[5048]:   get_domain_master_name_node_status_fail:
Dec  4 08:27:44 apss nmbd[5048]:   Doing a node status request to the 
domain master browser at IP ???.???.97.12 failed.

I think that the problem is because there are records in certain files 
in /var/cache/samba
In particular these three:
wins.tdb
ntprinters.tdb
and
namelist.debug

What if I stopped samba, deleted those files, and then restarted.
Would that cause a problem for my users?

Bill

Bill Szkotnicki wrote:
> The message below is appearing in my log file.
> I wonder why nmbd thinks it needs to "do a status request"  to
that IP
> address?
> It is another server here but does not run samba.
> I have been trying to make is stop this without any luck so far.
> Does anyone know how?
> Thanks, Bill
>
> Dec  4 08:27:43 apss nmbd[5048]: [2008/12/04 08:27:43, 0] 
> nmbd/nmbd_browsesync.c:get_domain_master_name_node_status_fail(486)
> Dec  4 08:27:44 apss nmbd[5048]:   
> get_domain_master_name_node_status_fail:
> Dec  4 08:27:44 apss nmbd[5048]:   Doing a node status request to the 
> domain master browser at IP ???.???.97.12 failed.
>