How do I force a browser election?

[John J. LeMay Jr.]

I just realized that I somwhat misread the original note - this addresses
the question about initiating an election from an NT station. I missed the
request for the same info from a Linux station. Unfortunately, I don't
have a solution for that one. Sorry!

On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, John J. LeMay Jr. wrote:

> 
> With the help of the resource kit util "browstat" (browstst.exe) like so:
> 
> browstat elect <transport> <domain>
> 
> "Transport" is normally NetBT for NetBIOS over TCP/IP. To determine your
> transport use:
> 
> net config rdr
> 
> Transport is displayed on line marked "Workstation active on" and in the
> format:
> 
> Transport_NIC (mac address of adapter)
> 
> on my station this looks like:
> 
> Workstation active on                NetBT_CpqNF31 (00805FBED7A4)
> 
> Where the transport is NetBT, the nic is CpqNF31, and my mac address is
> displayed in parantheses. (sp?)
> 
> Hope this helps!
> 
> John J. LeMay Jr.
> NJMC LLC.
> http://www.njmc.com
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Steve Litt wrote:
> 
> > I can force a browser election with the Win98 command:
> > 
> > net view /workgroup:workgroupname
> > 
> > However, that does not work on NT (and I haven't tried it on W95). What I'd
> > really like is a command from the Linux command line to force the election.
> > I've looked everywhere and can't find it. For my purposes having preferred
> > master=yes and restarting Samba is not an option.
> > 
> > Does anyone know how to force a browser election from the Linux command line?
> > Does anyone know how to force a browser election from the NT command line?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Steve
> > 
> > Steve Litt
> > Webmaster, Troubleshooters.Com
> > http://www.troubleshooters.com
> > slitt at troubleshooters.com
> > 
> > 
> 
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