[Samba] Samba 3.6.1 losing browser elections to WinXP

2012-02-14 Thread Raymond Lillard
Hello Samba; I am aware this was a problem years ago... This week I turned up a brand new server to replace an embarrassingly old one. The problem has re-occurred. I expected this to be a problem long ago fixed. I have made the following registry edit to the offending XP machine and

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.6.1 losing browser elections to WinXP

2012-02-14 Thread Miguel Medalha
2) How can I force a browser election without restarting the daemons? smbd doesn't seem to respond to a SIGHUP. A command line would be nice. Look at the smbcontrol command. os level = 65 Did you try to increase os level ? Also, read the man page for the domain