Samba

[Blindraven]

Oh, and how do i set the machine to pref master with a high OS level? I know
I could probably google that but incase the list ever needs the reference :P

On 10/11/07, Daniel Mons <daniel.mons at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
> Scott McKean wrote:
> > So there are two servers fighting for 'control' of the Samba network.
> > 'TONY-LINUX' and 'SERVER' from what I can tell.
>
> If that's the case, setting one of the machines with the "preferred
> master" directive and a high "OS level" (greater than 50 or so should
> set it straight) will solve that problem, and make one of the servers
> always win the master browser election for your network when NMB fires up.
>
> "man smb.conf" will explain what these mean, and why they need to be
> set.  Likewise, John H. Terpstra's excellent "Samba 3 by Example" book
> will also explain why these need to be set:
> http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/
>
> (Don't they teach this sort of thing in RHCE courses?)
>
> But yes, we need complete config files and logs from all relevant
> machines.  Both the log.smbd and log.nmbd files, as well as the log
> files specific to the machines doing the sharing (ipaddress.log or
> hostname.log in /var/log/samba/).  They will explain whether it's an
> issue with SMB (the actual file-sharing daemon) or a problem with NMB
> (the name lookup/resolution daemon).
>
> You can of course test this a little further by connecting to the
> machine in question by IP rather than by hostname.
>
> -Dan
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