Not even a comment on this?
-Brian
Brian H. Nelson wrote:
Hi all,
I have a Windows 2003sp2 domain with a few Samba 3.0 member servers.
This domain services about 700 XP PCs distributed across 15 or so
subnets.
On one particular subnet there are about 300 PCs, 2 or 3 2003 member
servers and a samba 3.0.28 member server (solaris). When/if the samba
server picks up the local master browser role, it will cause the
domain master browser to crash after a short while (5-30 min). As long
as one of the windows machines is LMB, everything works fine. I have
been able to reproduce the crash several times by switching the samba
machine back to LMB (with os level = 255).
I do have at least one other Samba machine acting as a local master.
This machine does not seem to cause the above problem, but it is on a
different subnet that has far fewer machines (less that 50). That
samba is 3.0.23c (ancient, I know).
The domain master is the 2003 DC that carries the PDC emulator FSMO
role. Moving the PDC role around to other DCs causes the crash problem
to follow to the new machine. Stopping the Computer Browser service on
that DC prevents the crash from happening, but that is not really a
solution. Setting 'local master = no' on the samba machine also takes
care of this problem, which I have done, but I still feel that this is
a pretty major issue and should be investigated further.
I suspect that this is ultimately a Microsoft bug, but being that only
Samba seems to tickle it is why I'm posting here.
Are there any known issues related to this? I have a network trace and
a level 10 nmbd log of the problem. Should I open a bug?
Thanks much,
-Brian
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Brian H. Nelson Youngstown State University
System Administrator Media and Academic Computing
bnelson[at]cis.ysu.edu
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