Problem with NT workstation loging in...

[Rafał Szcześniak]

John Rooke wrote:
> 
> We are running samba 2.1-prealpha on SuSE Linux 6.0 and all seems to be
> OK. The only problem seems to be when I start up an NT Workstation 4.0
> (SP5) PC called john. This attempts to become the master browser (as can
> be seen from the except from log.nmb below) meaning that the PC john
> cannot find the PDC (saturn - our Linux box running Samba) and thus logs
> on with a locally stored profile. If I then log out of john and logh
> back in all is OK and I can log onto our domain.
> 
> I have set os level=100 in smb.conf on saturn so saturn should win out
> all the time.
> 
> How do I stop john from trying to be the master browser when it starts
> up?
> 
> John.
> 
> [1999/09/27 10:15:56, 0]
> nmbd/nmbd_incomingdgrams.c:process_local_master_announc
> e(309)
>   process_local_master_announce: Server JOHN at IP 10.1.1.8 is
> announcing itself
>  as a local master browser for workgroup LPSYSTEMS and we think we are
> master. F
> orcing election.
> [1999/09/27 10:15:56, 0]
> nmbd/nmbd_become_lmb.c:unbecome_local_master_success(15
> 6)
>   *****
> 
>   Samba name server SATURN has stopped being a local master browser for
> workgrou
> p LPSYSTEMS on subnet 10.1.1.13
> 
>   *****
> [1999/09/27 10:16:14, 0]
> nmbd/nmbd_become_lmb.c:become_local_master_stage2(406)
>   *****
> 
>   Samba name server SATURN is now a local master browser for workgroup
> LPSYSTEMS
>  on subnet 10.1.1.13
> 
>   *****

Did you try to change 'os level' value ?

Rafał