From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 22 09:22:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA28689 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 09:22:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA28684 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 09:22:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from blueridge-ftp.saic.com ([198.151.14.6]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id JAA00928 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 09:22:34 -0800 Received: from BlueRidge-EF.SAIC.COM ([198.151.14.5]) by blueridge-ftp.saic.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA12162 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 11:40:05 -0500 Received: from SAIC1/SpoolDir by BlueRidge-EF.SAIC.COM (Mercury 1.21); 22 Jan 96 11:48:13 -0500 Received: from SpoolDir by SAIC1 (Mercury 1.21); 22 Jan 96 11:47:53 -0500 From: "Tony Magner" Organization: SAIC BlueRidge Engineering Facility To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 11:47:19 -0500 EST Subject: Re: Samba setup help required Reply-to: anthony.s.magner@cpmx.saic.com Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Message-ID: <2EB8A196D2E@BlueRidge-EF.SAIC.COM> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On 22 Jan 96, Christoph Kukulies scribbled: >> >> #ifdef DUMBASS_ATTACK >> >> John Brann wrote... [snip] >> >> How do I convince nmbd that it IS the master browser? > >I may be wrong since I didn't look into the >samba list for a while but I doubt samba supports acting as a >master browser. This is left to NT servers or NT workstations. >Don't know about Win95, if they can be master browser. > >From what I've read at http://lake.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba/samba.html and elsewhere, Samba *can* be forced to master browser by setting the "os level" global option in smb.conf to a higher number. Default is 0. Setting it to 2 would beat WFWG and Win95 but not NT, which uses level 32. Good luck. -- Tony Magner -- anthony.s.magner@cpmx.saic.com