On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 19:43 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Friday 10 March 2006 19:18, Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote: > > > > It looks like samba is having trouble finding the Master Browser. It is > > possible that there is not one on that subnet. If you do not have a > > smb.conf line: wins server = 1.2.3.4 > > (Where 1.2.3.4 is the IP address of the master browser) you might try that. > > If you do have a wins server line, it would be some kind of communication > > problem. > > > We have never used a wins server in the past, and I know nothing about it. > I'll take a good look at Using Samba and see what I can learn. > > From my memory of old logs, the box that is causing me grief (a W2K box) was > always trying to grab the Master status from my server. I guess that this is > what is happening here. > > So - the log I quoted is from the samba server. The samba server should stay > the master browser (fingers crossed). I'll try adding the samba server IP > into the wins server line. ---- ok - you mean on the Windows systems...yes, that should do unless you are doing dhcp server in which case, you can simply add a directive in dhcp... option netbios-name-servers 192.168.1.1; where you put the samba server (also WINS server) ip address but os level > 33 pretty much insures that the samba server wins the browser elections against Windows workstations Craig
