RE: A little off topic - Microsoft Networking Problem
Petr,
Many Thanks.
Problem solved.
Actually the Linux machines do not have samba installed, they are simply
mail, web, squid etc.
I know that none of the Windows machines have "Browse Master" enabled. At
least they weren't when we set them up (unless the mysterious Mr Nobody and
his fiddling fingers have been at it again.)
Enabling "Browse Master" on one machine fixed the problem, and it works much
faster than it ever did !!
Strange that the problem has only shown up now. Probably because the
network has grown so large.
Regards, and thanks again.
Ian
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From: dingo@warlord.2y.net [mailto:dingo@warlord.2y.net]On Behalf Of
Petr [Dingo] Dvorak
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 12:22 PM
To: Debian-User
Subject: Re: A little off topic - Microsoft Networking Problem
On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Ian Perry wrote:
IP> I know this is a little off topic but...
IP>
IP> I have a network of 100+ operating Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, Netware
Server,
IP> Linux (here I have to add that the machines running linux and netware
have
IP> been up continuously for over 11 months and never missed a beat unlike
the
IP> others mentioned)
IP>
IP> On the windows machines, they are taking forever to pull up Network
IP> Neighbourhood. It began happenning a few months back without
explanation
IP> and has been happenning randomly ever since (we had not changed the
network,
IP> nor brought any new machines online). We have no problems with IPX, or
IP> TCP/IP on any of the machines.
IP>
IP> I was just wonderring if anyone has had a problem similar and was there
a
IP> quick solution to finding the problem rather than taking the 100+
network
IP> down and thoroughly testing it.
I had the same problem with my machines, what i think was happening, that
the
windows machines were fightning who is going to be the domain master, i
fixed
that with turning it off on all the windows machines in network properties
and
then set this in /etc/samba/smb.conf:
domain master = yes
local master = yes
preferred master = yes
also i set 'os level = 255', from what i heard, no windows [any version] has
higher priority on smb so the samba easily beat all of them. Since then the
local network is like a flash, the only 'disadvantage' is that the linux
machine has to be up if any of the windows machines need to use the smb, as
it
is the domain master and all the other machines are prevented from becoming
one even when the linux samba machine is down.
HTH
Dingo.
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