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From: Moray Henderson on 6 Jul 2010 09:40
Samba 3.4.7 on CentOS 5.4 (although I saw the same behaviour with
earlier versions of both). Samba is set to be the PDC and master
browser, and we have bumped the os level up to its maximum:

workgroup = WORKGROUP
netbios name = LINUX
os level = 255
preferred master = Yes
local master = Yes
domain master = Yes
browse list = Yes
enhanced browsing = Yes
wins proxy = No
wins support = Yes

Periodically, however, some Windows laptop comes onto our network and
steals Local Master from the Samba server. Then, when the laptop is
removed, no further browser elections occur. I can force an election
with "smbcontrol nmbd force-election", which the server wins (no pun
intended), but isn't that supposed to happen automatically if the
previous master disappears?

Any ideas why a server with those settings would lose Local Master, or
fail to regain it when the other machine becomes unavailable?


Moray.
"To err is human.  To purr, feline"






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