Samba domain_master_browser pls help :)

[Raymond van den Houwen]

This weekend my RH7.1 system was connected to a network, where there was a 
computer running that probably was set as the domain_master_browser (WINS) 
and his IP is 192.168.0.6

Now, when I'm home again, my samba doesn't work as it used to do !! Normally 
my samba server is also the WINS server for my internal network at home 
(RH7.1 + WIN2000 + WINXP). But now I cannot connect to the linux box anymore 
and I cannot resolve the WINS names for my computers because of this.

He still tries to connect to the old (192.168.0.6) master browser and
therefor gives an error: Cannot sync browser lists

In the logs I find that Samba has a problem being the domain master browser  
on the workgroup: WORKGROUP

Here you can see a piece of /var/log/messages

Jan 14 09:30:38 ray nmbd[1580]: [2002/01/14 09:30:38, 0]
nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_browser_wins(341)
Jan 14 09:30:38 ray nmbd[1580]:   become_domain_master_browser_wins:
Jan 14 09:30:38 ray nmbd[1580]:   Attempting to become domain master browser
on workgroup WORKGROUP, subnet UNICAST_SUBNET.
Jan 14 09:30:38 ray nmbd[1580]: [2002/01/14 09:30:38, 0]
nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_browser_wins(354)
Jan 14 09:30:38 ray nmbd[1580]:   become_domain_master_browser_wins:
querying WINS server at IP 192.168.0.1 for domain master browser name
WORKGROUP<1b> on workgroup WORKGROUP
Jan 14 09:30:39 ray nmbd[1580]: [2002/01/14 09:30:39, 0]
nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_query_success(235)
Jan 14 09:30:39 ray nmbd[1580]:   become_domain_master_query_success:
Jan 14 09:30:39 ray nmbd[1580]:   There is already a domain master browser
at IP 192.168.0.6 for workgroup WORKGROUP registered on subnet
UNICAST_SUBNET.



An a piece of /var/log/samba/log.nmdb

[2002/01/14 09:30:38, 0]
nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_browser_wins(341)
become_domain_master_browser_wins:
Attempting to become domain master browser on workgroup WORKGROUP, subnet
UNICAST_SUBNET.
[2002/01/14 09:30:38, 0]
nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_browser_wins(354)
become_domain_master_browser_wins: querying WINS server at IP 192.168.0.1
for domain master browser name WORKGROUP<1b> on wo
[2002/01/14 09:30:39, 0]
nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_query_success(235)
become_domain_master_query_success:
There is already a domain master browser at IP 192.168.0.6 for workgroup
WORKGROUP registered on subnet UNICAST_SUBNET.

And an other piece of /var/log/samba/log.nmdb:

Jan 14 09:53:06 ray nmbd[1580]: [2002/01/14 09:53:06, 0]
nmbd/nmbd_browsesync.c:domain_master_node_status_fail(264)
Jan 14 09:53:06 ray nmbd[1580]:   domain_master_node_status_fail:
Jan 14 09:53:06 ray nmbd[1580]:   Doing a node status request to the domain
master browser
Jan 14 09:53:06 ray nmbd[1580]:   for workgroup WORKGROUP at IP 192.168.0.6
failed.
Jan 14 09:53:06 ray nmbd[1580]:   Cannot sync browser lists.


Could someone please tell me where the information is saved about the subnet 
domain_master_browser. And does someone has a solution for this problem ?

Btw: I tried to delete the directory /var/cache/samba, but that didn't
helped.



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