samba - Mar 1999 - NT PDC forgets it's the domain master browser!

On 31 Mar 99, Jim Watt <jimw@pe-nelson.com> had questions about NT 
PDC forgets it's the domain master browser! Why???:  

[snip]
> For about a week after the PDC is rebooted, everything is fine.
> Clients on both networks can see all the machines in the domain,
> indicating that Samba and the PDC are synchronizing browse
> lists.  Eventually, in the nmbd log, errors like this one
> begin:
>   Unable to find the Domain Master Browser name TIOGA<1b> for the
>     workgroup TIOGA.
>   Unable to sync browse lists in this workgroup.
> 
> If I use nmblookup to find the IP address associated with
> "tioga#1b", the PDC is found:
[snip]
> interfaces = 192.52.153.11/24 167.116.93.5/24
>         local master = yes
>         preferred master = yes
>         domain master = no
>         os level = 17
>         announce as = NT Server
                        ^^^^^^^^^
Maybe if you didn't announce as NT Server, the real NT machine 
wouldn't think you were a BDC.  I don't know what the options are 
off the top of my head (I think it might be to fool WfW or 
something) but it *might* help...


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Steve Arnold                            sarnold@earthling.net
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On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Stephen L Arnold wrote:

} Maybe if you didn't announce as NT Server, the real NT machine 
} wouldn't think you were a BDC.  I don't know what the options are 
} off the top of my head (I think it might be to fool WfW or 
} something) but it *might* help...

I'd added that last weekend.  It was omitted before, and the
problem happened without it there.

I think I'll take it out, just to cut down on the number
of variables!

Thanks,

Jim
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