[ale] samba <> Master Browser

[Jim Kinney]

I did the same thing a long time back much to the consternation of the
_real_ windows domain admin.

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.

Samba is a fantastic project.

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:25 PM, <jcpilman at gmail.com> wrote:

> This may be old news to most of you, but I just found out.
>
> Our network at the office is a Windows Workgroup. So when I installed
> Ubuntu 10.04 and started using samba at the office, my computer became
> the Domain Master Browser. (Don't be tricked by the ambiguity of the
> word 'domain' in this context.) This caused some grief for the Windows
> users here, because my computer is not always on the network. So I
> made the following changes to the defaults in /etc/samba/smb.conf
>
> domain master = no
> local master = no
> preferred master = no
>
> Of course, you sometimes want the Linux box to be master.
>
> The documentation is pretty good about explaining why this works;
> although, it did not mean much to me until I saw it in action.
>
> http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/NetworkBrowsing.html
>
>
> ...John
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