Browsing from Win95/98 possible only if Samba is master

Gerry Kirk gerry at mccb.org
Sun Aug 20 10:06:45 GMT 2000


Perhaps I should have mentioned that I want our NT PDC to be the browser. 
Any ideas why it isn't working that way?

Thanks,
Gerry

At 8/18/00 10:57 PM, you wrote:
>using Samba 2.0.6, SuSE 6.1, an NT server as PDC and WINS server
>
>I went through the tests listed in DIAGNOSIS.txt and discovered with test 
>10 that no master browser was being selected. The only way a master was 
>selected was when I set
>
>local master = yes
>domain master = yes
>preferred master = yes
>
>Previously, these settings were set to 'no'.
>
>Here is my entire smb.conf:
>;
>; /etc/smb.conf
>;
>; Copyright (c) 1999 SuSE GmbH Nuernberg, Germany.
>;
>[global]
>    workgroup = <DOMAIN>
>    guest account = ftp
>    keep alive = 30
>    os level = 20
>    kernel oplocks = no
>    netbios name = <LINUX_SERVER>
>
>; Uncomment the following, if you want to use an existing
>; NT-Server to authenticate users, but don't forget that
>; you also have to create them locally!!!
>   security = domain
>   password server = <NT_PDC_NAME>
>   encrypt passwords = yes
>   dns proxy = no
>
>    socket options = TCP_NODELAY
>
>    map to guest = Bad User
>
>; Uncomment this, if you want to integrate your server
>; into an existing net e.g. with NT-WS to prevent nettraffic
>   local master = yes
>   domain master = yes
>   preferred master = yes
>
>; Please uncomment the following entry and replace the
>; ip number and netmask with the correct numbers for
>; your ethernet interface.
>   interfaces = 192.168.0.2/255.255.255.0
>
>; If you want Samba to act as a wins server, please set
>; 'wins support = yes'
>    wins support = no
>
>   wins server = <NT_PDC_IP>
>
>[homes]
>    comment = home
>    browseable = no
>    read only = no
>    create mode = 0750
>
>  [cdrom]
>    comment = Linux CD-ROM
>    path = /cdrom
>    read only = yes
>    locking = no
>
>[tmp]
>  comment = temporary files
>  path = /tmp
>  read only = yes
>
>
>Any help would be appreciated,
>Gerry Kirk
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