[Samba] how is Samba 3.x advertising itself to Windows clients across LAN, WAN ?

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Brian M wrote:
| We recently installed Samba 3.x server on Linux
| system (RHEL 3.0, using stock RH samba packages).
|
| We are observing following messages in logs:
| 	lib/access.c:check_access(328)
| and access is denied. I know why we get access
| denied: we have restricted "hosts allow =" setting.
| My question is: why are we getting connection requests
| in first place? I think something is advertising this
| system, but what? And how do we turn off?

This is probably due to browse list syncrhonization.
try setting the os level = 0 and local master = no
(assuming this is a standalone file/print server).




cheers, jerry
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