Samba and the PDC are fighting for being the Browse master, why?
Andre Albsmeier
andre.albsmeier at mchp.siemens.de
Mon Aug 10 17:56:20 GMT 1998
Hello,
in my log.nmb I regularly see these messages:
process_local_master_announce: Server GUTENBERG at IP 192.168.35.90 is announcing itself as a local master browser for workgroup PIEZO and we think we are master. Forcing election.
1998/08/10 12:57:03 ***** Samba name server FAURE has stopped being a local master browser for workgroup PIEZO on subnet 192.168.32.1 *****
1998/08/10 12:57:24 ***** Samba name server FAURE is now a local master browser for workgroup PIEZO on subnet 192.168.32.1 *****
process_local_master_announce: Server GUTENBERG at IP 192.168.35.90 is announcing itself as a local master browser for workgroup PIEZO and we think we are master. Forcing election.
1998/08/10 13:09:06 ***** Samba name server FAURE has stopped being a local master browser for workgroup PIEZO on subnet 192.168.32.1 *****
1998/08/10 13:09:29 ***** Samba name server FAURE is now a local master browser for workgroup PIEZO on subnet 192.168.32.1 *****
process_local_master_announce: Server GUTENBERG at IP 192.168.35.90 is announcing itself as a local master browser for workgroup PIEZO and we think we are master. Forcing election.
1998/08/10 13:21:04 ***** Samba name server FAURE has stopped being a local master browser for workgroup PIEZO on subnet 192.168.32.1 *****
1998/08/10 13:21:28 ***** Samba name server FAURE is now a local master browser for workgroup PIEZO on subnet 192.168.32.1 *****
1998/08/10 13:33:04 ***** Samba name server FAURE has stopped being a local master browser for workgroup PIEZO on subnet 192.168.32.1 *****
1998/08/10 13:33:28 ***** Samba name server FAURE is now a local master browser for workgroup PIEZO on subnet 192.168.32.1 *****
and so on. Every 12 minutes these two are starting to fight for being the LMB.
FAURE is the samba machine and GUTENGERG is the PDC (NT-Server). For various
reasons, I want the samba machine to be the local master browser (and the
domain master browser) so I have:
domain master = yes
local master = yes
preferred master = yes
os level = 65
in my config file. Does anyone know what I can do on the PDC to stop
this behaviour?
Thanks,
-Andre
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