prevent samba from getting involved with browsing at all by adding this
to your smb.conf
[global]
domain master = no
local master = no
preferred master = no
os level = 0
its also a good idea to set up a wins server, and send its details out
using dhcp and set the client mode to wins only.
from man dhcp-options...
quote
option netbios-name-servers ip-address [, ip-address...];
The NetBIOS name server (NBNS) option specifies a list
of RFC
1001/1002 NBNS name servers listed in order of preference.
NetBIOS
Name Service is currently more commonly referred to as WINS.
WINS
servers can be specified using the netbios-name-servers option.
option netbios-node-type uint8;
The NetBIOS node type option allows NetBIOS over TCP/IP
clients
which are configurable to be configured as described
in RFC
1001/1002. The value is specified as a single octet which
identi‐
fies the client type.
Possible node types are:
1B-node: Broadcast - no WINS
2P-node: Peer - WINS only
4M-node: Mixed - broadcast, then WINS
8H-node: Hybrid - WINS, then broadcast
/quote
Dean
Robert Barnett wrote:
I use samba on a mixed OS network. We have several NAS devices and two
Fedora workstations which share drives using NAS.
I have configured the Fedora workstations to only announce on the local
subnet (/24) to prevent inadvertent connections from the wider organization.
I implement this by putting the following in smb.conf
remote announce = 10.9.136.0/24
I also set
local master = no
Because I figured that there were other computers more suited to being the
master browser (whatever that means)
Unfortunately I've been faced with some windows boxes spontaneously not able
to browse or connect to the network. It is occasional, but seemed to
decrease in occurance when I reduced the use of SMB shares.
I'm really keen to find a safe configuration for my SMB shares, but I'm
not sure where I would find how to do this. It's very difficult to diagnose
which configuration works better without months of investigation.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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