I did the same thing a long time back much to the consternation of the _real_ windows domain admin. <br><br>The plus to have Samba as domain master (besides the coolness factor :-) is the ability to have Samba as the file storage share system with now an unlimited number of connecting clients to access the file. Otherwise you have to buy a client license for each user after 5 if using a windows server.<br>
<br>Samba is a fantastic project.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:25 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jcpilman@gmail.com">jcpilman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
This may be old news to most of you, but I just found out.<br>
<br>
Our network at the office is a Windows Workgroup. So when I installed<br>
Ubuntu 10.04 and started using samba at the office, my computer became<br>
the Domain Master Browser. (Don't be tricked by the ambiguity of the<br>
word 'domain' in this context.) This caused some grief for the Windows<br>
users here, because my computer is not always on the network. So I<br>
made the following changes to the defaults in /etc/samba/smb.conf<br>
<br>
domain master = no<br>
local master = no<br>
preferred master = no<br>
<br>
Of course, you sometimes want the Linux box to be master.<br>
<br>
The documentation is pretty good about explaining why this works;<br>
although, it did not mean much to me until I saw it in action.<br>
<a href="http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/NetworkBrowsing.html" target="_blank">http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/NetworkBrowsing.html</a><br>
<br>
<br>
...John<br>
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