Samba problem needs translation
Anne Wilson
cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Fri Mar 10 20:15:32 UTC 2006
On Friday 10 March 2006 19:46, Craig White wrote:
> which machine is set to use workgroup named MYDOMAIN.LAN ?
>
That is not the workgroup name, it's a substitute. Reason? Long story, not
really relevant.
> that doesn't sound like a samba box...that sounds more like a Windows
> box that is trying to be a WINS server for that workgroup at the same
> time your Samba box is in a different workgroup...just guessing
>
All boxes, windows and linux boxes have the same workgroup name.
> Probably easiest to have all computers on the LAN have the same
> workgroup name at which point samba using 'wins support = true' and an
> OS level of say > 33 should effectively win all browsing elections and
> cut down on the noise
>
OK - so do you suggest that I have 'wins support = true' AND 'wins server =
192.168.0.30' (the samba server IP)?
Other boxes have OS level set to 33 and the server was set to 66, though when
I went to the slimmed down version recommended in 'Samba 3 by Example' that
was taken out. I'll put it back in.
Anne
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