similar to: local master browser

I've been running samba servers with 200+ W98 machines for some time. I'm changing to W2k and everything was going fine. I've upgraded 40 boxes. One W2k box has started announcing itself as a local master browser for one of the workgroups. A samba server thinks it is master, forcing election. Samba will stop being the LMB for about 3 minutes and then will re-establish itself as

Hello everybody. I've been trying for weeks to find a solution for my problem, but since I couldn't find anything, here I am. I manage a network of about 200 PCs, 90% windows XP and Vista, 10% linux. A samba server is located on the main server, acting as a WINS server, to manage the list of connected computers. However, when a resident computer is badly configured (ie no wins server

I am using samba-1.9.18p10 in a Redhat 5.1 Linux box. I have a short question, i.e. Is it true that once the nmbd is running and becoming the Master Browser, others win95 clients will not act as Master Browser anymore ? Panyarak Ngamsritragul Department of Mechanical Engineering Prince of Songkla University.

Specifying Browser Computers When you start a computer running Windows 2000, the browser service looks in the registry for the entry MaintainServerList to determine whether a computer will become a browser. MaintainServerList is found in the following registry subkey: \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Browser\Parameters Table I.1 shows the values to which MaintainServerList

Hi All: I'm facing a weird behavior with Samba 3.5.10. It's a CentOS 6.3 repository RPM. Samba is acting as a PDC and integrated with OpenLDAP 2.4.23, also a CentOS RPM, through smbldap-tools 0.9.3 (from EPEL). In my network I have Windows 7 64 bits and Windows 7 32 bits. The problem is that Samba is losing local master browser 'status' to Win7 32 bits machines. From time to

I have a Samba Server 3.0.23a running on a Fedora 4. Since Vista entered my lan I've been having problems with master browser elections. When a Vista client connects to my workgroup it kills the network neighbourhood and the only machines seen is the vista client and my fileserver. By changing the regedit entries on the client side following this advice: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SYSTEM

Hello! Can anybody tell me what is the meaning of following logs (/var/log/messages). Feb 28 09:16:10 espl nmbd[3086]: process_local_master_announce: Server VINAY at IP 192.168.10.50 is announcing itself as a local master browser for workgroup EXCELIZE and we think we are master. Forcing election. Feb 28 09:16:10 espl nmbd[3086]: Samba name server ESPL has stopped being a local

The browsing capability in Network Neighborhood disppears periodically. Usually, double-clicking on Network Neighborhood gives us a list of all the NT and Unix/samba boxes on the network segment (i.e. in the Workgroup). When browsing disppears, all we see is *Entire Network*, which has nothing in it. We run a unix/NT network with 6 unix servers and about 80 NT clients. We are running NT

Hi, We currently have a very small network with a Windows Small Business Server acting as an ADS Master Browser, we also have a Debian Sarge Samba Server, this sharing a single directory at the Share level (security is not really that dig a concern, as this is open to anyone in the company). The Samba server has the workgroup set the the same domain as the Windows ADS, but it has not joined

Hi there. First time posting to this but I'm getting desperate so apologies for any netiquette faux pas... I'm running a Suse box with Samba on it, with Windows XP SP2 clients viewing it in a workgroup. Some pc's are having timeouts when attempting to view a network share though. In the logs, sometimes at the same time as the timeouts, this appears: [2005/07/28 13:19:08, 0]

Just run some samba as file server, or perhaps you can even just run nmbd on another host than on your DC. That host running nmbd will participate to browsing election, it should win election if you ask for it in smb.conf. Only DC won't appear in network neighborhood, which is not an issue as even your users loves waste your company time in searching in network neighborhood, they have nothing

Greetings, I'm having a problem where our samba host is loosing browse master elections to a Windows 2K notebook that is transient to our network. In the smb.conf I have set the following paramaters in the [global] section: local master = yes preferred master = yes os level = 255 After I made the above changes I restarted the host and at that time it won the election and we could browse

this isn't strictly a samba question, but it is related in that i'm trying to a samba server as my domain master browser and multiple samba servers as local master browsers for a workgroup across multiple subnets. everything seems to be working wonderfully except for one WfWG host which does not show up in the browse list as expected. i notice that this host is announcing itself as a

>Thanks a lot for your reply. Alright, it was not a >bug in Samba after all. You were right, I was wrong, >excuse me for blaming Samba and being an idiot :) >But please read on, because I'm still lost here. It's all right to feel repentant but don't exaggerate. You are OK, only a little stressed. >As I expected, this was not an issue with my physical >network

Hello Samba; I am aware this was a problem years ago... This week I turned up a brand new server to replace an embarrassingly old one. The problem has re-occurred. I expected this to be a problem long ago fixed. I have made the following registry edit to the offending XP machine and restarted Samba. I hope it sticks. I have two questions: 1) Have I missed something in the configuration?

I can force a browser election with the Win98 command: net view /workgroup:workgroupname However, that does not work on NT (and I haven't tried it on W95). What I'd really like is a command from the Linux command line to force the election. I've looked everywhere and can't find it. For my purposes having preferred master=yes and restarting Samba is not an option. Does anyone

Hi all, this is my first posting to Samba. :) *wave* I'm trying to set my Samba box to be the local master browser for the domain. I set os level to 65, but the Windows 2000 test machine that we have keeps winning the election. I've tried upping the os level to 75 to see if that works and it doesn't appear to. Does anyone know Windows 2000's os level, so I can set the Samba

Every now and then one of my lusers sets up a machine which attempts to be a local master and/or a domain master for our workgroup. This sucks since we want our samba machine to *always* be the WINS master server. (we have os level set to 255 for this machine) but appearantly it still loses elections that come up from time to time. The only way I know when this happens is when people come to me

Hi all Some time ago I asked about support of WinME and Win2000. The answer was: not ready yet. These days, when people enjoy VSS under Linux, I have to admit I really need wine:) So in a word: can I use Wine with any of these OSes? Could anyone please point me out to the settings I need in my config file (I am especially interested in Profile option)? Thanks in advance Sergey

i have an NT4 server and a linux samba server. the NT4 server is currently the WINS server. it works perfectly. i want to ditch it and use my samba server as the WINS server, however WINS simply does not work. could this be becuase the WINS server also needs to be the local master browser? here is the global section of my smb.conf [global] workgroup = laboratory os level = 2