The reason I see this as slightly OT is that I'm quite sure this is a Windows
problem, but since many LINUX Samba users also have Windows machines on their
networks, I hope someone can help.
I've had this problem for a long time. I can always see all the Win98 machines
on the network from my Linux box, but the Win98 machines sometimes see me and
sometimes don't. Today, while looking at something completely unrelated in
Ethereal, I noticed the following packet coming from a Win98 machine:
BROWSER local master announcement
I GOOGLED for this message and found mostly non-English articles which were no
help :-(
My guess is that since the Win98 machine has become master, it doesn't know
how to look at a SAMBA machine on the network. My questions are:
1 - Am I right?
2 - How do I tell Win98 not to do this?
Samba is set up to be the master, but that doesn't seem to help. Here's the
relevant part of smb/conf
[global]
workgroup = SOLOMON
server string = Samba Server %v on Shlomo1
encrypt passwords = Yes
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 50
name resolve order = lmhosts wins bcast
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
printcap name = cups
os level = 90
preferred master = Yes
domain master = Yes
dns proxy = No
wins support = Yes
printing = cups
TIA
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Shlomo Solomon
http://come.to/shlomo.solomon
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