Browsing from Win95/98 possible only if Samba is master

[Gerry Kirk]

At 8/20/00 11:07 PM, you wrote:

>If the NT PDC *isn't* the browser, AFAIK it will get very upset.  NT
>PDCs (oy maybe just one of the DCs) want to be the domain master and
>the local master for the subnet they are on.  You can stop Samba from
>being a browser by setting:
>
>   domain master = no
>   local master = no
>   preferred master = no
>   os level = 0
>
>I think those are right, anyway.

Yes, that's what I had before, but when I did, the samba linux server did 
not appear in Network Neighbourhood. I ran the test "nmblookup -M 
TESTGROUP" where TESTGROUP is the name of the workgroup that your Samba 
server and Windows PCs belong to. You should get back the IP address of the 
master browser for that workgroup. However, I got nothing, which is 
supposed to mean the election process failed.

The only way the test passes is if I set those settings above to yes and 
the os level to something higher. I can then see the linux server when 
browsing in Network Neighbourhood.

I know that is not the way it is supposed to work, but I'm not sure why 
this is happening.

Gerry