Ok so that we are all clear. YES i have turned off WINS on the NT machine, only the samba server has it enabled and YES i have told the machine which WINS server to use and YES is it the samba server i have double checked. i don't think the problem is something obvious like the above.As far as I understand, as long as you have an NT on the subnet, it will be the master browser and wins server. You also need to tell your W boxes who the wins server is. you can do it in the DHCP server or on every W box if not using DHCP Tom
On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 23:47, Tim Smith wrote:
of course i have set the samba server to wins support = yes
I'm not that much of a dunce :)
alton bailey wrote:
you have to tell samba to be a wins server in smb.conf
----- Original Message ----- *From:* Tim Smith <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *Sent:* Thursday, January 29, 2004 8:45 PM *Subject:* [Samba] WINS, must be master browser?
i have an NT4 server and a linux samba server. the NT4 server is currently the WINS server. it works perfectly. i want to ditch it and use my samba server as the WINS server, however WINS simply does not work. could this be becuase the WINS server also needs to be the local master browser?
here is the global section of my smb.conf [global] workgroup = laboratory os level = 2 kernel oplocks = No security = user encrypt passwords = Yes guest account = Nobody map to guest = Bad User
in this config samba will not win browser elections. I know the NT4
machine will win all browser elections, it's the only difference i
can
think of.
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