On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Mike Smith wrote:
>         I just had an interesting call from my local network administrator stating
> that my RH Linux 6.1 box had taken over the "NT" network and had become the
> PDC(Primary Domain Controller). I was wondering if anyone has ever heard of
> such a thing. I performed an upgrade from RH 6.0 to RH 6.1 and was
> wondering if samba had changed it its defualt settings for domains. What
> was really strange was that all the domain stuff(domain master, preferred
> master, and domain logons) was commented out. Any ideas on why this would
> happen?
I got in trouble for the same thing (on the local domain) with my local NT
administrator last Fall. I am runnin SuSE. The default smb configuration
includes:
domain master = no
local master = yes
preferred master = no
Maybe RedHat changes some of these. The default "local master = yes"
is what got me in "trouble."
To quote from the smb.conf man page:
Note that Windows NT Primary Domain Controllers
expect to be able to claim this workgroup specific
special NetBIOS name that identifies them as domain
master browsers for that workgroup by default (i.e.
there is no way to prevent a Windows NT PDC from
attempting to do this). This means that if this
parameter is set and nmbd claims the special name
for a workgroup before a Windows NT PDC is able to
do so then cross subnet browsing will behave
strangely and may fail.
Here is what my local NT admin added to my smb.conf file (obviously
your details may be different)
# Global parameters set by toddw
local master = no
domain master = no
preferred master = no
os level = 0
name resolve order = wins lmhosts bcast
wins support = no
wins server = put.ip.address.here
wins proxy = no
lm announce = false
Hope this helps.
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