[Samba] Re: Disappearing Windows machines ...

[Jamie Risk]

I'd been giving up hope. Thanks for suffering my editorial like plea for
help and responding.

- Jamie

> > 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.