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

[L.P.H. van Belle]

this is what i have , sorry, i missed that.. 
works for me with win7 32/64bit and win8.1 

	  wins support = yes
        os level = 240
        lm announce = Auto
        lm interval = 60
        preferred master = Yes
        local master = Yes
        domain master = Yes
        browse list = Yes
        enhanced browsing = Yes
 


>-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>Van: Lucas Brasilino [mailto:lucas.brasilino at gmail.com] 
>Verzonden: dinsdag 29 april 2014 21:56
>Aan: L.P.H. van Belle
>Onderwerp: Re: [Samba] Samba 3.5 loses local master browser 
>election to Win7 32bits
>
>Hi!
>
>> i suggest you try also set
>>
>> preferred master = Yes
>>
>> and/or increase the os level  in global smb.conf like.
>> os level = 65
>
>As you can see in my previous email, I did :-)
>
>thanks!
>Lucas Brasilino
>
>>>-----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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