samba Problem

[Mario St-Gelais]

Ryan Duff wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:34:43 -0500 (EST), Luc Bouchard 
> <luc at luker.on.ca> wrote:
>
>>
>> Ryan Duff said:
>>
>>> and did a service smb restart and went to work and when I came home
>>> everything had fiextd itself and I can now browse from my windows 
>>> machine.
>>>
>>> The moral of the story is that if you can't browse your network, you 
>>> have 2
>>> or more machines fighting to be PCD.
>>>
>> You seem to be confusing the roles of the Primary Domain Controller 
>> (PDC) or Master
>> Browser (MB).
>>
>> The PDC is the server that provides user and resource authentication 
>> for a given domain.
>> The MB is the server that checks the NetBIOS network looking for 
>> hosts.  It is the tool
>> responsible for making sure that pretty icons appear when 
>> double-clicking on Network
>> Neighbourhood.
>>
>> Your problem stems from the fact that Windows XP was trying to 
>> dominate your network. Both solutions suggested would fix the problem.
>>
>
>
>
> My bad. I was thinking of going to bed when I typed that. To fix my 
> previous statement:
>
> "The moral of the story is that if you can't browse your network, you 
> have 2 or more machines fighting to be Master Browser."
>
>
> Ryan
>
>
Hope you won't be thinking of going to bed when you come up with a 
solution for me ;)

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