[Samba] Disappearing Windows machines ...

[Jon Niehof]

> After I enable Samba on my Linux box, the windows machines on the network
> slowly (over hours) start disappearing from view of the network
> neighbourhood and windows services provided by windows machines become
> inaccessible too. Within 24 hours, windows services are totally crippled.
Add the following to the global section of smb.conf:

local master = no

for some reason samba as the master browser results in Not 
Happy Things, at least in my experience.