[Samba] WINS, must be master browser?

[Thomas Spuhler]

As far as I understand, as long as you have an NT on the subnet, it will
be the master browser and wins server. You also need to tell your W
boxes who the wins server is. you can do it in the DHCP server or on
every W box if not using DHCP
Tom


On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 23:47, Tim Smith wrote:
> 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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