Re: Master Browser related questions

From: George Valkov (null_at_somewhere.com)
Date: 07/26/04 

Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 23:49:08 +0300

Hello Michael!
Thank You for the useful information!

Can I force my server to register domain name 1b, without making it a Domain
Controller?

George Valkov

<Michael.Giorgio@NoSpam.mayerson.com> wrote in message
news:elhe6mxcEHA.4092@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Hi George,
>
> By default a SAMBA server will register the domain name 1b
> unique name for domains and become domain master browser.
>
> The personal firewall feature will block the necessary port
> needed for NetBIOS.
>
> MaintainServerList tells the machine to act as a master browser
> by maintaining the browse list, a setting of false will force an error
> and stop the computer browser service.
>
> IsDomainMaster gives the computer a better shot at becoming
> the segment master browser (SMB). The SMB is responsible
> for gathering the local browse list for it's given endpoint and
> passing back to the domain master browser (DMB). The PDC
> or PDC emulator is always the DMB which cannot change, it registers
> a NetBIOS domain name 1b unique name for domains guarenteeing
> this. The DMB will query all 1b names in order to gather a merged
> browse list which it then passes back to all SMBs. By default the PDC
> will act as SMB on it's given endpoint unless another machine is
> configured to be the SMB i.e. IsDomainMaster set to yes. The
> IsDomainMaster is set to false by default on the PDC.
>
>
> "George Valkov" <null@somewhere.com> wrote in message news:
> > My current configuration is
> > IsDomainMaster = Yes
> > MaintainServerList = Yes
> > I set those values right after Windows was installed (a few months
> ago).
> >
> > Is there any difference between
> > Yes and yes
> > because my server:
> > 1. cannot register as MBR or BBR if there is a fire walled MBR
> > 2. will always register as BBR if the Linux machine of my friend is
> > running - Linux always registers as MBR.
> > 3. will register as MBR on the next MBR change or at start-up (I'm not
> > sure).
> >
> > By the way if there is a fire walled MBR, but the Linux machine is
> running,
> > Linux will return a list of all fire walled servers registered as MBR
> plus
> > it's own name (no other computers).
> > browstat view 1
>
>

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