[Samba] Samba 3.5 loses local master browser election to Win7 32bits

[L.P.H. van Belle]

i suggest you try also set 

preferred master = Yes

and/or increase the os level  in global smb.conf like. 
os level = 65 


greetz, 

Louis


>-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>Van: lucas.brasilino at gmail.com 
>[mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] Namens Lucas Brasilino
>Verzonden: dinsdag 29 april 2014 19:44
>Aan: samba at lists.samba.org
>Onderwerp: [Samba] Samba 3.5 loses local master browser 
>election to Win7 32bits
>
>Hi All:
>
>I'm facing a weird behavior with Samba 3.5.10. It's a CentOS 6.3
>repository RPM. Samba is acting as a PDC and integrated with OpenLDAP
>2.4.23, also a CentOS RPM, through smbldap-tools 0.9.3 (from EPEL).
>
>In my network I have Windows 7 64 bits and Windows 7 32 bits. The
>problem is that Samba is losing local master browser 'status' to Win7
>32 bits machines. From time to time, some Win7 32bit forces an
>election and *wins* ! :( But I'm using os level 255!!!!
>
>At startup, nmbd forces an election and wins. Then some machines tries
>forces an election.. they looses for a while then after some time
>(say, one day to other), nmbd seems to give up and loses master
>browser 'status' :(
>
>The interesting fact is that Win7 64 bits seems not 
>forcing/winning elections.
>
>my config (relevant part):
>
>        workgroup = XXXX
>        netbios name = PDC01
>        interfaces = eth0 10.6.
>        bind interfaces only = yes
>        hosts allow = 127. 10.6.
>[...]
>        security = user
>        passdb backend = ldapsam:ldap://ldapsrv.xxxx.com/
>        ldap suffix = ou=rec,o=xxx
>        ldap ssl = start_tls
>        ldap admin dn = cn=admin,ou=rec,o=xxx
>        ldap passwd sync = yes
>        ldap delete dn = yes
>        ldap user suffix = ou=users
>        ldap group suffix = ou=groups
>        ldap machine suffix = ou=computers
>
>        domain master = yes
>        domain logons = yes
>
>[... smbldaptools scripts ...]
>
>        os level = 255
>        preferred master = yes
>        local master = yes
>        wins support = yes
>        time server = yes
>
>
>Now I've increased nmbd's debug level to 2 to see if I get some clue.
>
>Any help ??
>
>thanks a lot in advance
>Lucas Brasilino
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