IUCV and CTC do not support broadcast, which is required for browser election to happen as it does on a regular LAN. Switch to z/VM 4.3 and guest LANs and this will work properly.
-- db David Boyes Sine Nomine Associates > we have a Linux390 environment with 10 virtual Linux-machines running > on zVM and using IUCV or CTC to communicate with TCPIP on the VM. > All Linux belong to the same IP-subnet and all Linux are > Samba-Servers. > In theorie, only one of our Linux should become a local master browser > by holding a browsing election on the local subnet. But in our case, > every Linux becomes as a local master browser, they do not negotiate. > We don't think that we have a Samba-configuration problem. We rather > expect that it's a general problem related to the communication-device > configuration for Linux on VM. > Has somebody also recognised a Samba-behavior like that and has fixed > the problem? I also appreciate any explanation of this behaviour. > Thanks and regards, Heinz >
