[Samba] samba with ldap PDC cannot join my windows to domain?

Dale Schroeder dale at BriannasSaladDressing.com
Thu Aug 13 13:02:08 MDT 2009


Alberto Moreno wrote:
>
>   Hello my friends.
>
>   Looks like I had seen some light with this small issue.
>
>   Normally wet u have a PDC in your network, with Winboxes, AD, NT4, u
> must have at least 1 Master Browser rigth?
>
>   Well at home I have just 2 winboxes xp pro sp3, every time I setup a
> samba server, nomally I stop the computer browser services of my
> clients, in this case my 2 winboxes, this way samba could quickly
> became the master browser of my network.
>
>   Like I told u before, one of my issues is that my domain name
> doesn't appear at my network, just the "workgroup" of the winboxes
> machines, every time I try to browse my networks with my winboxes, it
> took a while to answer or some times just stop working and finally,
> won't show me my samba domain.
>
>   If I read the nmbd.log, it tells me that samba is the master
> browser... cool but is not happening.
>
>   Last night I decide to enable one of my winboxes "Computer Browser"
> service and boom, I could browse my network and see my domain.
>
>   This tell me that samba is having issues trying to handle the
> network browser, right now I could not add  my box to the doman, but
> at least I could see my domain there.
>
>   I follow the manuals Dale at work and no issue here, even that I
> have 2 domains running, but as soon as I start samba, it appears at my
> network.
>
>   The issue is at home.
>
>   Well If u have some tips guys about how to troubleshoot this I will
> appreciated.
>
>   Thanks all for your help and time!!!
>   
To ensure that samba is the master browser against xp machines, I use
  
[global]
    domain master = Yes
    os level = 65
    announce version = 5.9

This has always worked for me.

Dale


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