[Samba] causing LMB elections

[Van Sickler, Jim]

Are you using WINS?  If not, you might consider
setting up the samba server as your WINS server.

Jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: C. C. Windsor [mailto:d20k3 at chara.gsu.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 11:11 AM
> To: samba at samba.org
> Subject: [Samba] causing LMB elections
> 
> 
> I've been running samba servers with 200+ W98 machines for
> some time.  I'm changing to W2k and everything was going fine.
> I've upgraded 40 boxes.  One W2k box has started announcing itself 
> as a local master browser for one of the workgroups.  A samba
> server thinks it is master, forcing election.  Samba will stop
> being the LMB for about 3 minutes and then will re-establish
> itself as LMB.  In a couple of minutes the same W2k box will
> force another election.  This is occuring every 4 to 5 minutes,
> none stop.  In the smb.conf file, os level = 64.  I have
> tried higher levels.  Changing this parameter doesn't seem to
> have an effect.  Any suggestions for a cure?  What may have 
> caused this W2k machine to decide it is the LMB?
> 
> thanks,
> Duke
> 
> _______________________________________________________________
> Charles C. Windsor		|	email: cwindsor at gsu.edu
> Dept. of Physics & Astronomy	|	ph#:   404-651-2279
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