Have you tried setting your "announce version" instead of just manipulating OS level?
announce version = 4.9 is the default, which is less than XP for example. Perhaps an "announce version = 5.3" would solve your problem, I dunno. --Charlie On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:52 AM, Timo Meinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Samba-Users, > > I have to administer a Samba WINS Server in a heterogenous network. It's a > student hostel with about 200 mixed (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X) computers. We > have a DHCP, which delivers the WINS-Server address to the clients. I don't > have access to the clients. > > The problem is, that the WINS-Server (Samba 3.0.27) looses the > Master-Browser election irregulary. I can't configure Samba a way, that > it keeps the MSB. > > Example from the log.nmbd: > > === > [2008/06/09 22:15:45, 0] > nmbd/nmbd_incomingdgrams.c:process_local_master_announce(309) > process_local_master_announce: Server GUERO at IP 10.0.80.221 is announcing > itself as a local master browser for workgroup WODANLAN and we think we are > master. Forcing election. > [2008/06/09 22:15:45, 2] > nmbd/nmbd_become_lmb.c:unbecome_local_master_browser(280) > unbecome_local_master_browser: unbecoming local master for workgroup > WODANLAN on subnet 10.0.80.5 > [2008/06/09 22:15:45, 0] > nmbd/nmbd_become_lmb.c:unbecome_local_master_success(149) > ***** > > Samba name server SHODAN has stopped being a local master browser for > workgroup WODANLAN on subnet 10.0.80.5 > > ***** > === > > SHODAN is the name of the server. Today it's GUERO, who is winning the > election. Yesterday, it was another computer. > > When I restart the smbd/nmdb it wins the election and the network browsing > operates normally. Is there any way to be sure, that SHODAN keeps the MSB? > > At the moment I have a cron, which restarts the smb-server every 30 minutes, > so that it wins the election and becomes the MSB, but that's really a nasty > thing. > > This is my configuration: > > smb.conf: > === > [global] > workgroup = WODANLAN > netbios name = Shodan > server string = Wodanlan Master Browser > hosts allow = 10.0.80. > log level = 2 > > domain master = yes > local master = yes > preferred master = yes > enhanced browsing = Yes > os level = 255 > > wins support = yes > dns proxy = no > === > > Can you help me? > > Thank you very much > Timo Meinen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
