[Samba] Re: Questions about Samba and a WINS server...update
Jason Williams
jwilliams at courtesymortgage.com
Fri Jun 25 19:39:27 GMT 2004
Ok...trying to follow up here and see if someone can help me out, and let
me know what is exactly hapening here. I have a few ideas, but I wanted to
post here.
As I said in my previous post, I am having problems browsing the corporate
network from a Branch Office.
Doing some testing, here is some output from my log.nmbd on my WINS server:
[2004/06/25 12:20:45, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:terminate(54)
Got SIGTERM: going down...
[2004/06/25 12:20:45, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(664)
Netbios nameserver version 3.0.4 started.
Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1994-2004
[2004/06/25 12:20:45, 0]
nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_browser_wins(327)
become_domain_master_browser_wins:
Attempting to become domain master browser on workgroup COURTESY, subnet
UNICAST_SUBNET.
[2004/06/25 12:20:45, 0]
nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_browser_wins(341)
become_domain_master_browser_wins: querying WINS server from IP
192.168.1.50 for domain master browser name COURTESY<1b> on workgroup COURTESY
[2004/06/25 12:20:45, 0]
nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_stage2(113)
*****
Samba server OXYGEN is now a domain master browser for workgroup
COURTESY on subnet UNICAST_SUBNET
*****
[2004/06/25 12:20:45, 0]
nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_browser_bcast(282)
become_domain_master_browser_bcast:
Attempting to become domain master browser on workgroup COURTESY on
subnet 192.168.1.50
[2004/06/25 12:20:45, 0]
nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_browser_bcast(295)
become_domain_master_browser_bcast: querying subnet 192.168.1.50 for
domain master browser on workgroup COURTESY
[2004/06/25 12:20:45, 0]
nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_query_success(225)
become_domain_master_query_success:
There is already a domain master browser at IP 192.168.1.20 for
workgroup COURTESY registered on subnet 192.168.1.50.
[2004/06/25 12:21:08, 0] nmbd/nmbd_become_lmb.c:become_local_master_stage2(396)
*****
Samba name server OXYGEN is now a local master browser for workgroup
COURTESY on subnet 192.168.1.50
*****
I'm posting this again, because I think I may know what is going on, but
trying to gete verification. This line:
There is already a domain master browser at IP 192.168.1.20 for workgroup
COURTESY registered on subnet 192.168.1.50.
...I am pretty sure is what is causing the problem. The WINS Server,
OXYGEN, has the IP of 192.168.1.50:
The NT 4.0 server has the IP address of 192.168.1.20.
What is stumping me is that for some reason, it appears that the NT box is
still becoming the Domain Master Browser, which could be the reason why i
can't browse properly, right?
So how can I make sure that OXYGEN becomes the DMB? It is already the LMB,
but seems to be losing to the NT 4.0 server for the DMB?
I just thought of something: The NT 4.0 box has the domain setup as
COURTESY. In looking at my smb.conf file, I setup the WORKGROUP as
COURTESY. I think I read in the Samba book that this could cause a problem.
If my thinking is correct, if I were to shut off the NT box, I bet I could
browse the network from a Branch office, correct? If that is the case, what
are my options to resolve that? Keep in mind, I have to keep the NT 4.0 box
for now. :/
Any recommendations?
Jason
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