I know what OS LEVEL does and in my experience it's enough to put a value of 99 or even 65 to win browser elections over winnt/2000 adn that's why when I got these problems I tried to rise the value to 150 because I don't know if with a value of 99 samba will win over winxp, but as I can see this is not the problem here... because I still get those messages, so I'm a bit confused about what is really the problem.
Alex ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Dixon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 9:06 PM Subject: Re: Samba errors > On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 13:11, Alex wrote: > > Aug 6 17:52:50 main nmbd[17890]: This response was from IP > > 192.168.254.60, reporting an IP address of 192.168.254.60. > > Aug 6 18:28:12 main nmbd[17890]: [2003/08/06 18:28:12, 0] > > nmbd/nmbd_namequery.c:query_name_response(112) > > Aug 6 18:28:12 main nmbd[17890]: query_name_response: Multiple (2) > > responses received for a query on subnet 192.168.254.1 for name > > WORKGROUP<1d>. > > Aug 6 18:28:12 main nmbd[17890]: This response was from IP > > 192.168.254.60, reporting an IP address of 192.168.254.60. > > > > I get a lot of these messages on my rh9 machine with samba-2.2.8a-1 and I > > don;t know why or what should I do to fix this. Here is my smb.conf: > > ... > > All workstations are Win98 and WinXP and all of them have samba as their > > wins server. > > > > I have also foud that at a certain point when I try to bowse the network I > > can only see a couple of computers (not even half of them). The same > > smb.conf I had 2 months ago and everything was working just fine, but > > now.... > > Can you give me some hints on what should I do and why does this happen? > > Based on the "multiple (2) responses" message, and the fact that you > have occassional browsing problems, it sounds to me like you have > competing domain masters. Check your Windows XP systems to see if any > of them are configured as a PDC. Per the smb.conf manpage... > > " os level (G) > This integer value controls what level Samba advertises itself as for > browse elections. The value of this parameter determines whether nmbd(8) > has a chance of becoming a local master browser for the WORKGROUP in > the local broadcast area. > > Note :By default, Samba will win a local master browsing election over > all Microsoft operating systems except a Windows NT 4.0/2000 Domain > Controller. This means that a misconfigured Samba host can > effectively isolate a subnet for browsing purposes. See > BROWSING.txt in the Samba docs/ directory for details." > > If you still have problems, I'd suggest performing some payload dumps on > your traffic. Unfortunately, it will take some advanced SMB experience > to understand what you're seeing, so you might be better off just > "tweaking <stuff>". ;-) > > -- > Jason Dixon, RHCE > DixonGroup Consulting > http://www.dixongroup.net > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
