SAMBA requesting to be a master browser....

[Ben Kosse]

Hehe, yep. First, do you have file/print sharing enabled on any Win95 PCs?
If so, this can help cause the problem. Under the File/Print sharing
properties, there are two settings (Browse Master and LM Announce or
something like that). The second one defaults to Disabled, but Browse Master
is "automatic". This is bad. Disable that on every file-sharing PC out
there.

That's step one.

Step two is to add:
local master = no
domain master = no
os level = 0

To your smb.conf file. I don't know if they exist in 1.9.16, but they do in
1.9.18 as well as 2.0.3.

I bet what happened was a Win95 PC was actually the domain master browser
for a time before the power outage and Samba decided it would try to rule
the roost, not seeing any other masters out there.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Gallen [mailto:ggallen at slackinc.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 22, 1999 8:01 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: SAMBA requesting to be a master browser....
> 
> 
> 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
>