SAMBA requesting to be a master browser....

George Gallen ggallen at slackinc.com
Mon Mar 22 16:02:16 GMT 1999


We are running samba 1.9.16p11, and seem to be doing
just fine.

Last Month, our IT dept informed us that our machine
was attempting to be a master browser, which the NT
Wins server was not happy about. Below is my global
config options. 

When I killed/restarted the samba daemons (running as
daemons and not via inetd) the problem seem to vanish.
Feeling this was a fluke, it was dismissed.

Apparantly it happened again, last week, so I'm wondering....

The network is totally W95/98/NT, with the exception of
our unix system. Is there some way that samba can be made
to kick into a master browser mode, even though the config
file has "no" for preferred master?

Yes, I realize this is an older version, but will upgrading
solve this issue? Since there were never problems before, I
had no reason to upgrade.

There are no files other than log. files on our system. I had
another samba system setup before 1.9.18, which was setup for
master browsing, and it started creating domain files, which
is not the case this time.

What/how can I setup tcpdump scan the outgoing packets to determine
when our system is jumping into the master browser mode?
this way I can try to get a jump and monitor the packets
myself on our end

Another piece of information just came in, there was a power
outage at the time SAMBA started requesting to be master
broswer, Our system is on a UPS, it never went down, the 
NT WINS server was on a UPS as well and is said to have 
not gone down.

However, MANY PC's throughout the building DID go down and
rebooted themselves. Could this be of any relevance? Not
sure if power was an issue the first time.


[global]
   printing = bsd
   printcap name = /etc/printcap
   load printers = yes
   guest account = nobody
   preferred master = no
   username map = /usr/local/samba/lib/users.map
   wins server = 10.10.1.35
   socket address = 10.10.150.30
   server string = "DEC Alpha 2100"
   wins support = no
   hosts allow =  10.10.100.96 10.10.150.28 10.10.150.30 
   netbios name = alpha
   workgroup = STYX  


Thanks
George Gallen
ggallen at slackinc.com


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