Hi there. First time posting to this but I'm getting desperate so apologies for any netiquette faux pas...
I'm running a Suse box with Samba on it, with Windows XP SP2 clients viewing it in a workgroup. Some pc's are having timeouts when attempting to view a network share though. In the logs, sometimes at the same time as the timeouts, this appears: [2005/07/28 13:19:08, 0] nmbd/nmbd_incomingdgrams.c:process_local_master_announce(311) process_local_master_announce: Server PCSTEVE at IP 192.168.0.204 is announcing itself as a local master browser for workgroup WORKGROUP and we think we are master. Forcing election. [2005/07/28 13:19:08, 0] nmbd/nmbd_become_lmb.c:unbecome_local_master_success (149) ***** Samba name server WORKGROUPSHARE has stopped being a local master browser for workgroup WORKGROUP on subnet 192.168.0.10 ***** [2005/07/28 13:19:26, 0] nmbd/nmbd_become_lmb.c:become_local_master_stage2 (396) ***** Samba name server WORKGROUPSHARE is now a local master browser for workgroup WORKGROUP on subnet 192.168.0.10 ***** And thus it carries on until someone else on the network tries to take over. On the net, there are loads of people querying this but mostly either samba v samba conflicts (solved by making one master and one not) or other windows conflicts (solved by raising the os level). The os level of this server is already at 65 when an XP client is apparently at 16. At no point should samba give up (even for a second, as I understand it) it's master browser rights to an XP client. The smb.conf is listed below in part. Can anyone PLEASE shed light on this since this is driving me nuts and users are complaining of slow access to files on the WORKGROUPSHARE samba box's share. Thanks very much Steve smb.conf (in part) follows: [global] workgroup = WORKGROUPSHARE netbios name = WORKGROUPSHARE server string = PAH Network Share interfaces = 127.0.0.1, eth0 bind interfaces only = Yes security = SHARE map to guest = Bad User add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -c Machine - d /var/lib/nobody -s /bin/false %m$ domain logons = Yes os level = 65 preferred master = Yes domain master = Yes ldap suffix = dc=pahltd,dc=com printer admin = @ntadmin, root, administrator -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba