[Samba] WINS, must be master browser?

[Peter Ulrich Kruppa]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Tim Smith wrote:
>
> So you want to make your samba machine a Primary Domain
> Controller (PDC) ?!
>
> >
> > here is the global section of my smb.conf
> > [global]
> >         workgroup = laboratory
> >         os level = 2
> >         kernel oplocks = No
> >         security = user
> >         encrypt passwords = Yes
> >         guest account = Nobody
> >         map to guest = Bad User
> >
> > in this config samba will not win browser elections. I know the NT4
> > machine will win all browser elections, it's the only difference i can
> > think of.
> You will also need something like this:
>     wins support = yes
>     local master = yes
>     preferred master = yes
>     os level = 65
And you also set this stuff in [global] ?

>
> Anyway, you should read the Samba-Howto-Collection for details
> (either found locally via swat or on www.samba.org --->
> documentation).

Uli.

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