[Samba] Browse Master Election
Arthur
arthur_vd at gmx.net
Thu Sep 12 16:51:05 GMT 2002
Hi Kristyan
Be sure that none of the win-machines has more than one network-protocol
with smb support enabled. If there's a machine with both TCP/IP and IPX
enabled, it'll always win the election, even if the os level of others
is higher (it sees itself as superior as it supports more things).
Arthur
Kristyan Osborne wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A weird problem ... My PDC is running samba 3.0 cvs from a couple of
> weeks ago. the os level is set to 65 and that machine has been the
> master for my domain for ages, until last night. A win2k client
> machine stoll the domain and made itself the master for the domain,
> hence a few problems. I have cranked the os level to 80, however I'm
> pretty sure that is not supported/a bad idea/not to be done sort of
> thing.
>
> Can anyone suggest any ideas
>
> Cheers
>
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