Samba 3 searching for DMB instead of PDC?

Herb Lewis hlewis at panasas.com
Fri Apr 1 17:31:56 GMT 2005


If you have samba servers on the different subnets you could try
running findsmb. It will indicate who is the DMB (if it exists)

Pedot Wolfgang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> thanks for your explanations, I see now ;)
> 
>>> For some reason this domain
>>> does not have a DMB (at least according to the WINS-Server)
>>
>>
>>
>> That's a problem, and is probably the problem you'll need to solve.  
>> Something is happening on your network to cause the DMB service to 
>> fail.  Most likely, some other node on the same LAN as the PDC is 
>> winning the LMB election (which shouldn't happen).
> 
> 
> I already informed the responsible guys to investigate this because I 
> also assumed that this is wrong.
> 



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