[Samba] Configure samba to not look for domain master browser

Gaiseric Vandal gaiseric.vandal at gmail.com
Tue Dec 6 08:44:26 MST 2011


Windows / Samba machines should elect a domain master browser among 
themselves.  Normally the PDC should win.   With out domain browsing, 
you can't see machines in the "My Network Places" or "network 
neighborhood" etc.    Depending on network size, you may want to 
implement a WINS server.


On 12/06/2011 10:26 AM, Timothy Madden wrote:
> Hello
>
> On my network there is no domain master browser, and my nmbd is 
> spamming my /var/log/messages file with messages that it cound not 
> find one. Can I configure nmbd not to look for the domain master 
> browser ?
>
> Thank you,
> Timothy Madden
>



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