[Samba] Forcing Samba host to become domain/local master browser?

[Ricky Nance]

Can you confirm that nmbd is running on UBUNTU? ps ax | grep nmbd

Ricky


On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Winfried <codecomplete at free.fr> wrote:

> Hello
>
> To investigate the issue I have with deleting files on a Samba host (a.k.a.
> LINUX), I installed a second Samba server on my LAN (UBUNTU).
>
> However, I didn't pay attention to browser-related infos, so that I guess
> LINUX would remain the domain/local browser.
>
> So I reconfigured the hosts thusly:
> =================== LINUX # cat /etc/samba/smb.conf
> [global]
> workgroup = WORKGROUP
> netbios name = LINUX
>
> local master = no
> =================== UBUNTU # cat /etc/samba/smb.conf
> [global]
> workgroup = WORKGROUP
> netbios name = UBUNTU
>
> wins support = yes
> domain master = yes
> preferred master = yes
> local master = yes
> os level = 255
>
> It's been 20mn since I reloaded both instances of Samba, but it appears
> that
> LINUX is still the master browser:
> ============================== C:\Users\fred>nbtstat -a linux
> Local Area Connection:
> Node IpAddress: [192.168.0.1] Scope Id: []
>
>            NetBIOS Remote Machine Name Table
>
>        Name               Type         Status
>     ---------------------------------------------
>     LINUX          <00>  UNIQUE      Registered
>     LINUX          <03>  UNIQUE      Registered
>     LINUX          <20>  UNIQUE      Registered
>     ..__MSBROWSE__.<01>  GROUP       Registered
>     WORKGROUP      <1D>  UNIQUE      Registered
>     WORKGROUP      <1E>  GROUP       Registered
>     WORKGROUP      <00>  GROUP       Registered
> ==============================
>
> Besides, UBUNTU is still not reachable:
> ============================== C:\Users\fred>net view
> Server Name            Remark
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> \\FRED-PC
> \\LINUX                Samba 3.6.6
> The command completed successfully.
> ==============================
>
> Should I just wait longer for UBUNTU to 1) be added to the list of hosts
> and
> 2) become the local/domain master browser, or should I run some command to
> force LINUX to stop being the local browser?
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>
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