[Samba] log output and browse list problem

[Wes Deviers]

Samba List:

I have a multisite setup connected via T1/VPN. Each site has it's own
SMB server (Debian 4.1) and between 6 and 70 PCs connected to it at a
time. Each is a PDC for it's respective site, on different domain names.
Any given site may have to access files stored on a different site's
server, so SMB traffic is allowed between locations.

We've had a problem for a while now where the browse list on PCs never
expires old entries. For instance, one of the IT employees had a testing
workgroup set up that still appears in the browse list 8 months after
he's left. We've tried the "turn everything off" suggestion but it's 1)
hard to know if we really got *everything* off; we're a bit of a 24/7
operation and 2) a minor problem, so we haven't dedicated that much time
to figuring it out.

One of the servers sporadically has a weird log entry, though, and I
think it might be related. Once or twice a week, the log output looks like:

nmbd/nmbd_synclists.c:complete_sync(284)  sync with DELETEME(0.0.0.0) for workgroup TEMP completed (0 records) : 15 Time(s)
 nmbd/nmbd_synclists.c:complete_sync(284)  sync with HARRIS(0.0.0.0) for workgroup SERVERS completed (3 records) : 18 Time(s)
 nmbd/nmbd_synclists.c:complete_sync(284)  sync with HARRIS(0.0.0.0) for workgroup SERVERS completed (4 records) : 3 Time(s)
 nmbd/nmbd_synclists.c:complete_sync(284)  sync with JAZZ(0.0.0.0) for workgroup HARMONY completed (0 records) : 26 Time(s)
 nmbd/nmbd_synclists.c:complete_sync(284)  sync with JAZZ(0.0.0.0) for workgroup HARMONY completed (0 records)‹ QjœG íÝksÛÈv.àÏɯÀGNUÆÆ•ÔÉ©‚$‰/*’ÇNrYczoW,Q-ïøߧ$¨I€M¨›½¼‰KÚëQãÒ÷ÕÿåÚv÷­í¼uÛ–Ýö«û–ûÿ­Ÿ_nß²ÿ{úùíû›¿CöÕ§ïó´:]øl=Ýß¾›}ù#äß}š?Ìî?Íþ'´ÞþúüøöñéþíâóÝíç·O÷³ÿy˜ýýsöå
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NOTE: This email sent in plain text (I hope!) so it might not look
"correct", but it's supposed to look like Unicode-to-ASCII non-sense.
This is followed by hundreds of pages of special character gook.

That particular machine is running 3.0.24-6etch9, as are other
machines...but it's the only one with Log Vomit.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

Wes