SAMBA digest 1452

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Knut Hintzen wrote:

> > 
> > On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > BROWSING.txt states:
> > >
> > > "In an WORKGROUP environment the domain master browser must be a
> > > Samba server, and there must only be one domain master browser per
> > > workgroup name (although the same Samba server can act as Domain
> > > master browser for multiple workgroup names)."
> > 
> > wroonnggg...  who the hell put that in?
> ----------------------------------------
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am really sorry to read this "wroonnggg...".
> 
> It would be great thing, if samba was able handle more than one
> workgroup
> at one time as a master.

yes it would.

the remainder of the message describes a reference to a post that 
describes how to do this.

also, the (out-of-action) samba-2 version can do this (its netbios / 
browsing code is stuffed...)

luke