rookie help, please

[Matthew Geddes]

erik schlichting wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am the de-facto administrator of our city's Sun
> box(Solaris 2.6). I know very little about networking. This
> machine was set up with Samba(v1.9.18) by an administrator
> that is no longer with the city. The rest of the city runs
> on an NT network, which I know even less about. I have no
> administrative rights or responsibilities on the NT network.
>
> The UNIX box houses ArcInfo GIS files which are shared out
> to NT users, who have limited accounts (no home directory)
> on the sun machine. Not all the city's users have accounts
> on the Sun.
>
> Here's the problem: lately, the Sun machine has been getting
> promoted to PDC daily, which of course causes havoc with the
> users when they can't log in. The NT administrators can't
> solve the problem (other than "It's Samba. you must bring it
> down" or reboot their machine), and I don't know what to
> tell them. I know this happened when Samba was first
> installed, but then solved & went w/o a hitch for months.
>
> Have others had this problem, and can you offer some advice?
> Is it NT or Unix having troubles? Is it really Samba causing
> the problem?

Samba is promoting *itself* to PDC? Do you mean Master Browser?


What version of Samba? Is there any info in the log files?

Matt