[Samba] Master domain browser after IP change?

Marc Sherman msherman at projectile.ca
Thu Jan 6 14:01:49 GMT 2005


Marc Sherman wrote:
> Marc Sherman wrote:
> 
>> I just renumbered my local network, from 192.168.1/24 to 
>> 192.168.23/24.  My samba 3.0.10 server, which is configured to be the 
>> local and master domain browser, seems to be a bit confused:
>>
>> Jan  4 22:03:34 pyloric nmbd[2308]: [2005/01/04 22:03:34, 0] 
>> nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_browser_wins(327)
>> Jan  4 22:03:34 pyloric nmbd[2308]:   become_domain_master_browser_wins:
>> Jan  4 22:03:34 pyloric nmbd[2308]:   Attempting to become domain 
>> master browser on workgroup PROJECTILE_WRK, subnet UNICAST_SUBNET.
>> Jan  4 22:03:34 pyloric nmbd[2308]: [2005/01/04 22:03:34, 0] 
>> nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_browser_wins(341)
>> Jan  4 22:03:34 pyloric nmbd[2308]:   
>> become_domain_master_browser_wins: querying WINS server from IP 
>> 192.168.23.5 for domain master browser name PROJECTILE_WRK<1b> on 
>> workgroup PROJECTILE_WRK
>> Jan  4 22:03:34 pyloric nmbd[2308]: [2005/01/04 22:03:34, 0] 
>> nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_query_success(225)
>> Jan  4 22:03:34 pyloric nmbd[2308]:   become_domain_master_query_success:
>> Jan  4 22:03:34 pyloric nmbd[2308]:   There is already a domain master 
>> browser at IP 192.168.1.5 for workgroup PROJECTILE_WRK registered on 
>> subnet UNICAST_SUBNET.
>>
>> It is successfully becomming the local master browser, but it's 
>> failing to become the domain master browser.  Is there any way to get 
>> samba to forget about its own old IP address?

Renaming the domain didn't work entirely; some of the messages went 
away, but samba still kept trying to contact itself on the old IP 
address every 20 minutes.  I ended up having to purge and re-install 
samba to get these errors to go away.

Should I be filing a bug about this somewhere?

- Marc


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