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Subject: Re: Samba setup help required
To: jbrann@panix.com (John Brann)
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 09:04:51 +0100 (MET)
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In-Reply-To: <199601211825.NAA00296@jbrann.dialup.access.net> from "John Brann" at Jan 21, 96 01:25:50 pm
From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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> 
> #ifdef DUMBASS_ATTACK
> 
> John Brann wrote...
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > (Please note I am also posting this to comp.protocols.smb)
> > 
> > I have 2 PC's... 
> 
> 	et cetera 
> > 
> > I'm stumped.  I've tried a number of variations on the commands above, 
> > with the same results each time.  Sorry to be so long-winded, but I've tried
> > to give a fairly full picture of my problem.
> > 
> > TIA
> > 
> > John
> #endif
> 
> Er, I'm embarrassed to say I found the examples.
> 
> I now have a disk share working OK, though it requires some command-line
> arm-twisting for nmbd to believe that it's on the ethernet (with bogus IP 
> addresses) as opposed to the PPP link.
> 
> I do still have the following message appearing in the log.nmb file:
> 
>  Failed to find a master browser for FREEBIE using 10.255.255.255
> 
> 'FREEBIE' is the LAN Manager domain (and workgroup) name. the 10.*.*.* 
> network is my bogus ethernet.  The result is that when my Win95 PC attempts
> to log on there is a pause followed by a warning that I may not be able to 
> access some network resources.  Despite (?) this, my password is checked
> properly.
> 
> 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.


> 
> John
> 
> -- 
>  Difficult conversations with great figures of history:
>  3. Winston Churchill:
> 	 "Excuse me, this is the no-smoking section."
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de