[Samba] XP pro winning election on domain

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Thu Jan 19 16:16:45 GMT 2006


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Joost Runsink wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Today our domain went down. When looking in the log it appears that a
> windowsXPpro machine won the election. The domain controller has an
> OSlevel of 65 (3.0.14a).
> Restarting the smb process (/etc/init.d) resolved the problem.
> 
> How is it possible that the XP machine was able to win the election ?

Perhaps from the nmbd crash in the logs?  Was this the only
crash reported?






cheers, jerry
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