[Samba] browse master serious problem

[Craig White]

Not sure that this is gonna solve it...

you need a netlogon share to be a domain controller.

I don't generally mix cases on workgroup names and you definitely have
to be unique netbios name (server is a common name)

Craig

On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 11:35, Radu Naidinescu wrote:
> I have a LAN with a samba server witch acts as wins for it. It's also
> suposed to be a browse master for it, but unfortunately sometimes some
> windows xp/2000 pc becomes browse master and chaos follows... there is
> no pc in the wins list. I observed that stations with a firewall on it
> defeat the samba server and I cannot obligate the people who use those
> pc to stop their firewalls!
> 
> What can i do to prevent samba to lose the status of browse master?
> 
> Here is my smb.conf
> 
> [global]
>   encrypt passwords = yes
>   workgroup = BadBoys
>   netbios name = server
>   server string = server
>   log file = /var/log/samba/samba.%m
>   max log size = 50
>   security = user
>   deadtime = 5
>   bind interfaces only = yes
>   interfaces = eth1 lo
>   null passwords = no
>   guest account = nobody
>   debug level = 1
> 
>   smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
> 
>   os level = 255
>   local master = yes
>   domain master = yes
>   preferred master = yes
> 
>   wins support = yes
>   name resolve order = bcast host wins lmhosts
> 
> [temp]
>   path = /share/tmp
>   guest ok = no
>   guest only = no
>   writeable = yes
>