domain controller promotion

[Simo Sorce]

Akop Pogosian wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, David C. Canedo wrote:
> 
> > I have "preferred master = no" in my smb.conf file YET my samba server was still promoted to PDC
> > when our PDC went down this weekend. Is there a way to prevent this from happening?
> >
> > Please reply to dcanedo at concero.com as I am not on this mailing list.
> >
> > thanks,
> > --
> > Dave Canedo
> > Concero / IT Department
> >
> 
> This option is not used to designate a machine as PDC.
> >From smb.conf man page:
> 
>      preferred master (G)
> 
>           This boolean parameter controls if nmbd is a  preferred
>           master browser for its workgroup.
> 
>           If this is set to true, on startup, nmbd will force  an
>           election,  and  it will have a slight advantage in win-
>           ning the election.  It is recommended that this parame-
>           ter  is used in conjunction with "domain master = yes",
>           so that nmbd can guarantee becoming a domain master.
>                   ...
> 
> If you don't want your Samba box to be a PDC, make sure you do not
> set "domain logons" in smb.conf or use "domain logons = no"
> in smb.conf file.
> 
> Akop

"domain logons = yes" is needed to retrieve the passwords from the PDC.
to avoid beeing PDC you should set "domain master = no".

Simo.

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