[Samba] WINS, must be master browser?

Peter Ulrich Kruppa kruppa at pukruppa.net
Tue Feb 3 01:56:39 GMT 2004


On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Thomas Spuhler wrote:

> I do the settings with SWAT
No problem: Klick on the "View"-Button. There you will see all
settings you did for section [global] .

Uli.


> Tom
>
> On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 15:07, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> > 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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