I have a LAN with a samba server witch acts as wins for it. It's also suposed to be a browse master for it, but unfortunately sometimes some windows xp/2000 pc becomes browse master and chaos follows... there is no pc in the wins list. I observed that stations with a firewall on it defeat the samba server and I cannot obligate the people who use those pc to stop their firewalls!
What can i do to prevent samba to lose the status of browse master? Here is my smb.conf [global] encrypt passwords = yes workgroup = BadBoys netbios name = server server string = server log file = /var/log/samba/samba.%m max log size = 50 security = user deadtime = 5 bind interfaces only = yes interfaces = eth1 lo null passwords = no guest account = nobody debug level = 1 smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd os level = 255 local master = yes domain master = yes preferred master = yes wins support = yes name resolve order = bcast host wins lmhosts [temp] path = /share/tmp guest ok = no guest only = no writeable = yes -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba