My server's /var/log/syslog file is filled with:
Oct 18 13:07:38 bangkok nmbd[13656]:
Unable to find the Domain Master Browser
name BANGKOK<1b> for the workgroup BANGKOK.
The network is a bunch of Windows 98 workstations and a Linux server. We have
Samba set to be the WINS server, but there is no "DOMAIN MASTER
BROWSER" as such at all, anywhere.
When we installed the server a month ago we set up Samba to use computer name
"BANGKOK" in workgroup "BANGKOK". But Windows 98 seemed to
hate having a computer and a workgroup with the same name, so we changed the
Samba computer name to "SBANGKOK". The file /etc/samba/smb.conf (as
maintained by webmin) contains these lines (as shown by fgrep):
workgroup = BANGKOK
netbios name = SBANGKOK
/etc/hosts contains:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.172.28 bangkok.adamsint.com bangkok
Apparently nmbd is wasting a lot of CPU time trying to find a computer named
"BANGKOK". How do I tell nmbd to stop looking for this lost love?