[Samba] WINS, must be master browser?

[Tim Smith]

of course i have set the samba server to   wins support = yes

I'm not that much of a dunce :)


alton bailey wrote:

> you have to tell samba to be a wins server in smb.conf
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Tim Smith <mailto:tims at cqpl.com.au>
>     *To:* samba at lists.samba.org <mailto:samba at lists.samba.org>
>     *Sent:* Thursday, January 29, 2004 8:45 PM
>     *Subject:* [Samba] WINS, must be master browser?
>
>     i have an NT4 server and a linux samba server. the NT4 server is
>     currently the WINS server. it works perfectly. i want to ditch it and
>     use my samba server as the WINS server, however WINS simply does not
>     work. could this be becuase the WINS server also needs to be the
>     local
>     master browser?
>
>     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.
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