Domain_master_browser in SAMBA

[Gary MacKay]

Try turning all machines/workstations off first. Then turn on the samba
box and let it completely come up. "nmblookup -M -" will show you who is
the master browser and it should be your server. It may take a few
seconds, so be patient. Now bring up your workstations. My guess is that
one of your workstations is the master browser now since the server was
gone, and won't let go of it. Also, set your "os level" setting in
smb.conf to something like 64 so it will always win the election.

- Gary

Raymond van den Houwen wrote:
> 
> COULD SOMEONE PLEASE HELP
> 
> This weekend my RH7.1 system was connected to a network, where there was a
> computer running that was the domain_master_browser (WINS) and his IP is
> 192.168.0.6
> 
> Now, when I connnect it to my homenetwork agian, 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. 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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