Samba becomes no domain master browser

[Stephan Lauffer]

Hi Juergen!

> running Samba 2.0.6 on a SuSE 6.4 distrib we are not able to register
2.0.6 has got an uggly bug... maybe...

> [global]
>    wins support      = no
>    domain master     = yes
>    os level          = 65
>    preferred master  = yes
>    local master      = yes
>    wins server       = yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy

...you´re using also:
interfaces = aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd/netmask 127.0.0.1
bind interfaces only = true

In this case, nmbd is trying to register 127.0.0.1 on the WINS server.
If this happens, you can find 127.0.0.1 in the logfiles... looks like this:
---
[2000/02/07 12:25:47, 0] nmbd/nmbd_namerelease.c:release_name(233)
  release_name: Failed to send packet trying to release name LINUX-AG<00> IP 127.0.0.1
[2000/02/07 12:25:47, 0] libsmb/nmblib.c:send_udp(755)
  Packet send failed to xxx.xxxx.xxx.xxx(137) ERRNO=Invalid argument
---    
> nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_query_fail(262)
>   become_domain_master_query_fail: Error 0 returned when querying WINS
> server for name MEDIEN<1b>.
hm... this looks strange, i don´t know about " Error 0 returned when querying WINS".
You should have a look at nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c in the sources of samba.
In most cases you can find out, what this error means.

But best of all is to update to 2.0.7. There´s a rpm package from suse on:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse_update/6.4/n1/samba-2.0.7-13.i386.rpm

Hope your problem will be solved with the actuall, stable version of samba.
Good luck!

Liebe Gruesse, yours,
Stephan Lauffer

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