On Thursday 27 January 2005 17:01, Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote: > Hi, > > Recently I reinstalled the OS on my Samba PDC, letting Linux FC3 installer > do it's thing then overwriting the smb.conf with my old one. > > Now I find that although it tries but can't become Domain master browser > again, although it is happy to become a local master, a login server and to > serve files. The reason given in the log files is that there is another PDC > on the submet at 192.168.0.145 (see below). That IP is the IP address that > this (the only) samba server had for a short period during the reinstall. > There is no machine at that IP now. > > What is going on? Is there some file that stores PDC IP addresses? Note in > the winbind dump below, the 192.168.0.145 address for HOME and for > FILESTORE, both of which are bogus.
Stop Samba. Delete your wins.dat file and browse.dat file in /var/lib/samba (or wherever they are on FC3) and restart samba. - John T. -- John H Terpstra Samba-Team Member Phone: +1 (650) 580-8668 Author: The Official Samba-3 HOWTO & Reference Guide, ISBN: 0131453556 Samba-3 by Example, ISBN: 0131472216 Hardening Linux, ISBN: 0072254971 Other books in production. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
