"Paul LaFollette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Good people, > > I'm new to samba and more experienced with the unix world than the > windows world. I have set up a small system consisting of a samba > server running Samba 2.2.3 and FreeBSD 4.4, two win2k systems and > a win98 notebook. Networking hardware consists of 3com in the FreeBSD > system, whatever 10BaseT stuff is in the motherboards of the windows > systems, and 10BaseT twisted pair and hub. > > smb.conf looks like: > [global] > netbios name = BROOKLYN > encrypt passwords = yes > wins support = yes > hosts allow = 10.0.0. > oplocks = no > domain master = yes
try adding these: preferred master = yes local master = yes oslevel = 65 This will let the samba machine force and win an election to become the local master browser. That's a pretty old samba by the way. 2.2.8a was the last in the 2.2 series and now we are on to 3.0.2a. It should work though. -- Mark -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
