samba - Jan 2003 - Samba wins problem

Hello there,

 From digging the archive - it looks as if this was discussed here earlier 
however I could not find a decent solution to my problem.

The problem is that I keep seeing the following errors on my nmbd.log:
[2003/01/30 09:34:34, 0] 
nmbd/nmbd_browsesync.c:find_domain_master_name_query_fail(358)
   find_domain_master_name_query_fail:
   Unable to find the Domain Master Browser name WGNAME<1b> for the 
workgroup WGNAME.
   Unable to sync browse lists in this workgroup.

smb.conf:
[global]
         workgroup = WGNAME
         server string = wins server
         log level = 2
         lock directory = /var/lock/samba
         security = user
         encrypt passwords = Yes
         hosts allow = xxx.xxx.xxx.
         wins support = Yes
         os level = 65
         lm announce = No
         preferred master = Yes
         local master = yes
         dns proxy = No

<SNIP> ---------------------------- <SNIP>

Any idea what am I doing wrong?

Slackware 8.1 with latest current updates (running samba 2.2.7)



Regards

Gil Disatnik
UNIX system/security administrator.

GibsonLP@EFnet
http://www.disatnik.com
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hello gil.

[  nmbd/nmbd_browsesync.c:find_domain_master_name_query_fail(358)
     find_domain_master_name_query_fail:
     Unable to find the Domain Master Browser name WGNAME<1b> for the 
   workgroup WGNAME.
     Unable to sync browse lists in this workgroup. ]
 
  pardon me if i'm not perfectly correct here, but my impression is that
  it might be needed to add the following settings to the [global] of
  smb.conf:

netbios name = SERVERNAME
domain master = yes

  if i'm assuming correctly, it would look like you don't have a 
  netbios name set...  the error saying "unable to find the DMB name
  WGNAME<1b> for the workgroup WGNAME" might be saying that it
can't
  find the DMB for the workgroup because the samba server doesn't have
  a netbios name ( to go by ) set?

- 'domain master' will make it so that it can assemble browsing lists
   ( nethood ) for WORKGROUPs, in despite of being on different subnets.

  that seems to be at least a quasi-accurate interpretation of the
  manpage.. ?

  so those are a few things to look for -- unless you've already tried 
  them..

  jared.