Major network slowdown today... Samba the cause?

[Gerry Kirk]

Thanks to those who suggested disabling the local master setting on all the 
Win 9x machines... that seemed to help.

Gerry

At 3/22/01 06:16 PM, Gerry Kirk wrote:
>Today, our network has been excruciatingly slow. I checked the log.nmb 
>file, and I noticed that today, the Samba PDC has been losing its "local 
>master browser" status every 2 minutes or so, for about 15 seconds, to a 
>Win9x client.
>
>Before today, this also happened, but only a few times each day.
>
>Network configuration:
>1. All clients are Win9x.
>2. Server is SuSE 6.1, with Samba 2.0.5.
>3. Server is WINS server, which is specified in most of the clients (some 
>95 clients do not retain setting, for some reason).
>4. smb.conf has server as domain master, local master, domain security, os 
>level = 65, win support = true
>
>Any insights will be eagerly received.
>
>Gerry Kirk
>
>
>Information System Specialist,
>Mennonite Central Committee
>Bangladesh
>
>
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Information System Specialist,
Mennonite Central Committee
Bangladesh