Samba won't dance (more info)

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 15 April 2008 17:58:24 Bill Crawford wrote:
> On 15/04/2008, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >  FWIW, a while back I had a thread on the CentOS list about being unable
> > to get user mode working, and I found, as you did, that even after
> > re-starting samba it still didn't work - but then did a while later. 
> > I've never heard a convincing argument as to why that should be so.  HTH
>
> Quite often it is purely down to the delays caused by the "browser
> election" process coupled with getting whoever ends up being master
> browser to acknowledge that your server exists. 

Could be.  My preferred master is clearly defined, but I guess that elections 
still take place.

> It's a bit of an 
> over-simplification and probably wildly inaccurate, but reflects my
> experiences here (where it fails regularly due to someone adding a
> machine called "WORKGROUP" to the network :o)).

Hey, I have a user like that - regular re-installs :-)

Anne
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