Andre Albsmeier
1998-Aug-10 17:56 UTC
Samba and the PDC are fighting for being the Browse master, why?
Hello, in my log.nmb I regularly see these messages: process_local_master_announce: Server GUTENBERG at IP 192.168.35.90 is announcing itself as a local master browser for workgroup PIEZO and we think we are master. Forcing election. 1998/08/10 12:57:03 ***** Samba name server FAURE has stopped being a local master browser for workgroup PIEZO on subnet 192.168.32.1 ***** 1998/08/10 12:57:24 ***** Samba name server FAURE is now a local master browser for workgroup PIEZO on subnet 192.168.32.1 ***** process_local_master_announce: Server GUTENBERG at IP 192.168.35.90 is announcing itself as a local master browser for workgroup PIEZO and we think we are master. Forcing election. 1998/08/10 13:09:06 ***** Samba name server FAURE has stopped being a local master browser for workgroup PIEZO on subnet 192.168.32.1 ***** 1998/08/10 13:09:29 ***** Samba name server FAURE is now a local master browser for workgroup PIEZO on subnet 192.168.32.1 ***** process_local_master_announce: Server GUTENBERG at IP 192.168.35.90 is announcing itself as a local master browser for workgroup PIEZO and we think we are master. Forcing election. 1998/08/10 13:21:04 ***** Samba name server FAURE has stopped being a local master browser for workgroup PIEZO on subnet 192.168.32.1 ***** 1998/08/10 13:21:28 ***** Samba name server FAURE is now a local master browser for workgroup PIEZO on subnet 192.168.32.1 ***** 1998/08/10 13:33:04 ***** Samba name server FAURE has stopped being a local master browser for workgroup PIEZO on subnet 192.168.32.1 ***** 1998/08/10 13:33:28 ***** Samba name server FAURE is now a local master browser for workgroup PIEZO on subnet 192.168.32.1 ***** and so on. Every 12 minutes these two are starting to fight for being the LMB. FAURE is the samba machine and GUTENGERG is the PDC (NT-Server). For various reasons, I want the samba machine to be the local master browser (and the domain master browser) so I have: domain master = yes local master = yes preferred master = yes os level = 65 in my config file. Does anyone know what I can do on the PDC to stop this behaviour? Thanks, -Andre
Gerald Carter
1998-Aug-11 13:08 UTC
Samba and the PDC are fighting for being the Browse master, why?
> and so on. Every 12 minutes these two are starting to fight for being > the LMB. FAURE is the samba machine and GUTENGERG is the PDC > (NT-Server). For various reasons, I want the samba machine to be the > local master browser (and the domain master browser) so I have: > > domain master = yes > local master = yes > preferred master = yes > os level = 65 > > in my config file. Does anyone know what I can do on the PDC to stop > this behaviour?An NT PDC **must** be the Domain master browser for it's domain. No way around this. j- ________________________________________________________________________ Gerald ( Jerry ) Carter Engineering Network Services Auburn University jerry@eng.auburn.edu http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/cartegw "...a hundred billion castaways looking for a home." - Sting "Message in a Bottle" ( 1979 )
Christopher Kranz
1998-Aug-11 22:12 UTC
Samba and the PDC are fighting for being the Browse master, why?
Andre Albsmeier wrote:> > in my log.nmb I regularly see these messages: >[log messages deleted]> > and so on. Every 12 minutes these two are starting to fight for being the LMB. > FAURE is the samba machine and GUTENGERG is the PDC (NT-Server). For various > reasons, I want the samba machine to be the local master browser (and the > domain master browser) so I have: > > domain master = yes > local master = yes > preferred master = yes > os level = 65 > > in my config file. Does anyone know what I can do on the PDC to stop > this behaviour? >The strange thing about this is I'm seeing the same problem (1.9.18p8) with the following conf lines: domain master = no local master = yes preferred master = no os level = 30 I then see the same log messages over and over again, the samba server and my NT 4.0 PDC fighting over who is the local browse master. If I set 'local master = no' my samba server then disappears from the browse list!! So next I tried 'local master = yes' and 'os level = 0' in an attempt to keep samba from winning the elections. This did get the samba server back on the browse list but I continue to see the log messages about the elections. I did not see this problem with 1.9.17 and it only started with 1.9.18p7. I believe the PDC *has* to be the domain master and it *really* wants to be the local master as well. That's fine with me. How do I get samba to let the PDC be the local master and not be dropped from the browse list? I have 'wins support = no' and 'wins server' set to the IP address of my PDC. In the past that has been enough for the samba server to appear in the browse list. Has anyone else seen this behavior? Does anyone have any ideas as how to proceed? Christopher Kranz clk@cs.princeton.edu -- Christopher Kranz | Systems Programmer | clk@CS.Princeton.EDU 35 Olden St., Room 211 | Computer Science Dept. | Voice: 609-258-1747 Princeton, NJ 08544-2087 | Princeton University | FAX: 609-258-1771 ==========================PGP V2.6.2 key available===================== "Put the bunny back in the box." - C. Poe, Con Air
Janet Dickson
1998-Aug-12 08:20 UTC
Samba and the PDC are fighting for being the Browse master, why?
>The strange thing about this is I'm seeing the same problem (1.9.18p8) >with the following conf lines: > > domain master = no > local master = yes > preferred master = no > os level = 30 > >I then see the same log messages over and over again, the samba server >and my NT 4.0 PDC fighting over who is the local browse master. If I >set 'local master = no' my samba server then disappears from the browse >list!!Yes - I too have the same problem. Samba 1.9.18p7. The Samba server is my PDC so smb.conf has : domain master = yes local master = yes preferred master = yes os level = 65 Every 12 minutes I get the following in log.nmb : process_local_master_announce: Server PCPEARSON at IP 129.215.168.205 is announcing itself as a local master browser for workgroup BIOSSTEST and we think we are master. Forcing election. 1998/07/24 09:59:05 ***** Samba name server FISHER has stopped being a local master browser for workgroup BIOSSTEST on subnet 129.215.168.200 ***** 1998/07/24 09:59:28 ***** Samba name server FISHER is now a local master browser for workgroup BIOSSTEST on subnet 129.215.168.200 ***** I'd assumed it was a matter of telling the NT server not to announce itself as a local master, but no-one has come up with a solution - yet ! Cheers Janet *************************************************************************** Janet Dickson | http://www.bioss.sari.ac.uk/~janet Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland | email: janet@bioss.sari.ac.uk The King's Buildings, Mayfield Rd | Telephone: +44 (0) 131 650 4888 Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, Scotland, UK. | Fax: +44 (0) 131 650 4901 ***************************************************************************