samba - Sep 2002 - Listing Domain controllers, Local and Master Browsers running in your network

Hi,
  when trying to configure my samba server, I was curious if there's any
Domain controller running on our subnet. I could only find notes in
documentation of samba, that there has to be only one Domain Controller
running, otherwise weird things would happen ... Btw what are those weird
things?

  I couldn't find an option in smbclient or nmblookup to list for example
Domain Controllers, so I wrote a short perl script which hopefully does it
in the right way. Any opinions are welcome. ;)

  http://www.natur.cuni.cz/~mmokrejs/samba/smblisthosts.pl

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--On Saturday, September 28, 2002 12:51 AM +0200 Martin MOKREJ? 
<mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz> wrote:
> Hi,
>   when trying to configure my samba server, I was curious if there's
any
> Domain controller running on our subnet. I could only find notes in
> documentation of samba, that there has to be only one Domain Controller
> running, otherwise weird things would happen ... Btw what are those weird
> things?
Correct me if I am wrong, but I think you might want to re-word that...

"You should not have more than one controller PER SAMBA
CONTROLLED-DOMAIN."
Per subnet does not matter. (right?)  When you setup your Samba to be the 
Domain controller, do not use the name of an existing domain with a Windows 
PDC.

- john