On Friday 10 March 2006 19:46, Craig White wrote: > which machine is set to use workgroup named MYDOMAIN.LAN ? > That is not the workgroup name, it's a substitute. Reason? Long story, not really relevant. > that doesn't sound like a samba box...that sounds more like a Windows > box that is trying to be a WINS server for that workgroup at the same > time your Samba box is in a different workgroup...just guessing > All boxes, windows and linux boxes have the same workgroup name. > Probably easiest to have all computers on the LAN have the same > workgroup name at which point samba using 'wins support = true' and an > OS level of say > 33 should effectively win all browsing elections and > cut down on the noise > OK - so do you suggest that I have 'wins support = true' AND 'wins server = 192.168.0.30' (the samba server IP)? Other boxes have OS level set to 33 and the server was set to 66, though when I went to the slimmed down version recommended in 'Samba 3 by Example' that was taken out. I'll put it back in. Anne
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