Re: XP + Samba Browser problem

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From: Star Fleet Admiral Q (Star_Fleet_Admiral_Q(NO-SPAM)_at_(FORGET-SPAM)hotmail.com)
Date: 07/20/04 

Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 20:47:27 -0400

Don't know about your setup, but in my setup, I had to turnoff my
SAMBA server from becoming the "Master Browser", in the smb.conf
file - suggest you do a "man samba" or "man smb.conf" on your *ix
machine for the proper location/syntax for your version of Samba. 

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"Faiz Parkar" <f.parkar@aston.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:OmSl9qcbEHA.2408@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Can someone point me to in the right direction.. I have batch of 30
XP
> workstations setup to use Samba server but not part part of AD or
PDC..
> I used to see the all the worksations in the workgroup.
>
> But suddenly I cannot see any of the wrorkstations in any of the
workgroups
> around the campus from XP but able to see the workstaions from WIN98
in the
> Network nieghrbourhood.. but I am able to map a drive to the samba
server.
>
> Is there a way of checking if XP worksations are not setup as Master
> Browsers so that they are not fighting each other over  election of
browser.
>
> I am not sue if there is master browser in the Domain., but I was
told that
> the samba server was upgraded to V3 and since then I have lost the
> workgroups on the XP side. Any help appreciated.
>
> Regards
>
> Faiz
>
>

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