Thanks Simon, I had wondered if the ip helper address I put in for DHCP (running on the samba server) was causing this.
I wasn't getting very far in proving/disproving it though. (Lot's of reading tcpdump's manpage!) I'll put these changes in place right away. Thanks for your help. Con Harte. At 13:21 29/05/02, you wrote: >Con Harte wrote: > > >The LMB for one of our routed networks doesn't seem to > >be collecting the browse list from our DMB (also PDC). > > > >Also we seem to be getting entries in nmbd's log to say > >that the LMBs of these remote nets are claiming that they > >are LMB of the local net. They _are_ LMBs but of _their_ > >Local net. So why is nmbd then having elections on the local > >net. > >One I can answer ! You have broadcast forwarding turned on in the >router(s). The LMB is broadcasting it's existence, and that broadcast is >getting forwarded to other subnet(s). However, when the election is held it >gets sorted out (until the next broadcast). > >If you are using Cisco routers, then you want to include some (or all) of >these lines in your config : > >interface Ethernet0 > ip address xxxx > ip helper-address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx >! turns on broadcast forwarding (in our case for bootp/dhcp support) > >no ip forward-protocol udp tftp >no ip forward-protocol udp nameserver >no ip forward-protocol udp domain >no ip forward-protocol udp time >no ip forward-protocol udp netbios-ns >no ip forward-protocol udp netbios-dgm >no ip forward-protocol udp tacacs > >! turn off those we DON'T want. > >Simon > >-- >Simon Hobson, Technical Services Engineer >Colony Gift Corporation Limited >Lindal in Furness, Ulverston, Cumbria, LA12 0LD >Tel 01229 461100, Fax 01229 461101 > >Registered in England No. 1499611 >Regd. Office : 100 New Bridge Street, London, EC4V 6JA. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba