[Samba] browse list sync problem

[Michael Nuss]

I have a network with 3 subnets. There is a PDC one one subnet, and a 
WINS server on each of the first two subnets which are replication 
partners. (These three machines are running Windows 2000 Server.)  So my 
setup looks something like this:


Topology:

          10.50.x.x
              |
       +------+------+
       |             |
    10.0.x.x    10.100.x.x

10.50.x.x:
Server 1: Win2k: Primary Domain Controller / Domain Master Browser
Server 2: Win2k: WINS server for 10.50.x.x

10.0.x.x:
Server 3: Win2k: WINS server for 10.0.x.x and 10.100.x.x / Local Master 
Browser for 10.0.x.x

10.100.x.x
Server 4: Linux w/ Samba v3: local master browser for 10.100.x.x / Router

WINS is working fine across all the subnets, and browsing works between 
the first two subnets. The problem is that I'm trying to get the Linux 
machine to synchronize browse lists with the PDC, and it's failing:

nmbd.log:
[2004/08/23 14:40:46, 0] 
nmbd/nmbd_browsesync.c:domain_master_node_status_fail(247)
  domain_master_node_status_fail:
  Doing a node status request to the domain master browser
  for workgroup MYDOMAIN at IP 10.50.0.2 failed.
  Cannot sync browser lists.

(where MYDOMAIN is our domain name and 10.50.0.2 is the IP address of 
the PDC)

I'm not sure what to do to debug this. The error isn't entirely helpful 
because it doesn't say why the request failed. The Win2k machine on the 
10.0 subnet has no trouble synchronizing with the DMB.  The only 
possible conflict I can think of is that the Linux machine is 
multihomed, but Samba is only configured to listen on the 10.100 
interface, so I don't think that's the issue. It has been joined to the AD.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Mike Nuss