samba Problem

Luc Bouchard luc at luker.on.ca
Thu Mar 11 17:34:43 UTC 2004


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.

-- 
Luc Bouchard
Nepean, ON
luc at luker.on.ca





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