[Samba] weird election with non-existant machine

[Scott Lovenberg]

JJB wrote:
>    Forced Election:
>    In workgroup WORKGROUP when announced server was:
>       SYSTEM-1 (192.168.1.248) : 50 Time(s)
>       SYSTEM-2 (192.168.1.183) : 2 Time(s)
>       SYSTEM-3 (192.168.1.248) : 1 Time(s)
>
> Cannot get workgroup name from domain name browser:
>    192.168.1.153 : 96 Time(s)
>
> 192.168.1.153 was a mac running Leopard. It has not been on the 
> network for a month, but this keeps happening. Does anyone have an 
> idea where this address might be cached?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Joel
Depends on your distro, but in Slackware, when compiled without 
--with-hfs, it's like /var/cache/samba or /var/lib/samba.  I'm fairly 
sure that it should be in the /var directory.  Try doing a 'lsof' and 
see if the samba process has anything open from there that isn't a log 
file.  IIRC, it should be a DBD.