Just been wading through the docs and the mailing lists at samba.org trying to
find out how I should configure my samba file server but I still haven't been
able to work out the relationship of the samba server to the rest of my network.
I'm running a SOHO with linux, OS X and windows clients which need to connect to
the samba server to be able to run backups. I think it's causing conflict with
the main gateway / DHCP server (which runs dnsmasq).
Samba has these 4 settings which are causing me complete confusion:
workgroup = SAMBA_WORK_GROUP
domain master = yes
local master = yes
preferred master = yes
By all accounts this appears to be the way to allow the clients to browse the
samba server, but I get problems with connections dropping, authentications
failing and sometimes the server not even showing up.
Am I right that the workgroup name should be totally different from the domain
name I set for the DHCP clients in dnsmasq? (localdomain)
Thanks
Adam
