I recently replied to praise's post about Basic Browsing Problems, this is related. Reading the O'Riley documentation I found out an interesting thing. It appears that there is a tie in the browsing election on my LAN. Both samba and one of my Windows98 machines have the __MSBROWSE__ property when I execute a nmblookup -A host. (Only the samba machine has the <1b> though. When running "nmblookup WORKGROUP#b", the IP of my samba server is returned. I had this problem before, but I thought I fixed it. relavant stuff in smb.conf: encrypted passwords = yes password level = 8 obey pam restrictions =yes pam password change = yes local master = yes preferred master = yes domain master = yes os level = 65 lm announce = True # is this needed? valid users = trutwij root nobody guest account = nobody guest ok = yes name resolve order = wins lmhosts hosts bcast dns proxy = yes wins support = yes browsable = yes The logs state that the samba machine is the local/preferred/domain master, any ideas on what to do about this misbehaving Windows machine? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Josh
josh@trutwins.homeip.net wrote:> > I recently replied to praise's post about Basic Browsing Problems, this is > related. Reading the O'Riley documentation I found out an interesting > thing. It appears that there is a tie in the browsing election on my LAN.Oh my guts and galoshes, that's bad!> Both samba and one of my Windows98 machines have the __MSBROWSE__ property > when I execute a nmblookup -A host. (Only the samba machine has the <1b> > though. When running "nmblookup WORKGROUP#b", the IP of my samba server is > returned. > > The logs state that the samba machine is the local/preferred/domain master, > any ideas on what to do about this misbehaving Windows machine?I think you'll need to reinstall the client and server: fortunately that on;y takles a couple of minutes, right from the control panel->network window. --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify Performance & Engineering | some people and astonish the rest. Americas Customer Engineering, | -- Mark Twain (905) 415-2849 | davecb@canada.sun.com