[Samba] Forcing Samba host to become domain/local master browser?
Ricky Nance
ricky.nance at gmail.com
Fri Nov 29 17:57:39 MST 2013
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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