hello, why do you use samba as preferred master ?? . it seems that you are using samba only for shares security=user so you can set preferred master = no and remove the OS entries since it only helps in master election, and regarding the wins (nmblookup) you need to run the nmb service. and to clarify the problem in more understandable way. can you dump the output of testparam -vv
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