[Samba] Samba warning message

[Rowland Penny]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 13:44:53 +0000
Gerard Seibert via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 13:02:40 +0000, Rowland Penny via samba stated:
> 
> >On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 12:37:08 +0000
> >Gerard Seibert via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> >  
> >> Samba 4.8.9
> >> FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE-p3 / amd64
> >> 
> >> Since updating both FreeBSD and Samba, I have been getting the
> >> following screen pop-ups incessantly. They are always the same
> >> except for the time. IP 102.168.0.102 is a Win10 PRO / amd64
> >> machine. I never received any warnings before updating.
> >> 
> >> <quot>
> >> 
> >> Mar 19 08:23:58 scorpio nmbd[11202]: [2019/03/19 08:23:58.049153,
> >> 0] ../source3/nmbd/nmbd_namequery.c:109(query_name_response)                             
> >> 
> >> Mar 19 08:23:58 scorpio nmbd[11202]:   query_name_response:
> >> Multiple (2) responses received for a query on subnet
> >> 192.168.0.101 for name WORKGROUP<1d>.         
> >> 
> >> Mar 19 08:23:58 scorpio nmbd[11202]:   This response was from IP
> >> 192.168.0.102, reporting an IP address of 192.168.0.102.
> >> 
> >> <end quot>
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Is this considered normal, and is there something I can do to
> >> correct it if not?
> >> 
> >> Thanks!
> >>     
> >
> >Please post your smb.conf.
> >
> >Rowland  
> 
> Nothing special about this file. It just lists a few shares I use. It
> is pretty basic I think.
> 
> /usr/local/etc/smb4.conf
> 
> [global]
>   read only = No
>   valid users = gerard root vmail www
>   hide dot files = No
>   map archive = No
>   map readonly = No

Basic is an understatement ;-)
You are running as a standalone server, so it looks like the computer
is taking part in an election, this will happen frequently.

Two ways to try and stop this being reported in the logs, change the
workgroup name in smb.conf or set 'log level = 0' in smb.conf

Rowland