Browsing Election - TIE!
David Collier-Brown
davecb at canada.sun.com
Mon Jan 21 13:06:06 GMT 2002
josh at trutwins.homeip.net wrote:
>
> I recently replied to praise's post about Basic Browsing Problems, this is
> related. Reading the O'Riley documentation I found out an interesting
> thing. It appears that there is a tie in the browsing election on my LAN.
Oh my guts and galoshes, that's bad!
> Both samba and one of my Windows98 machines have the __MSBROWSE__ property
> when I execute a nmblookup -A host. (Only the samba machine has the <1b>
> though. When running "nmblookup WORKGROUP#b", the IP of my samba server is
> returned.
>
> The logs state that the samba machine is the local/preferred/domain master,
> any ideas on what to do about this misbehaving Windows machine?
I think you'll need to reinstall the client and
server: fortunately that on;y takles a couple of
minutes, right from the control panel->network
window.
--dave
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