Re: Samba errors

From: Alex (alexiruc_at_rdslink.ro)
Date: 08/06/03

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Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 21:33:28 +0300

    I know what OS LEVEL does and in my experience it's enough to put a value of
    99 or even 65 to win browser elections over winnt/2000 adn that's why when I
    got these problems I tried to rise the value to 150 because I don't know if
    with a value of 99 samba will win over winxp, but as I can see this is not
    the problem here... because I still get those messages, so I'm a bit
    confused about what is really the problem.

    Alex
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    From: "Jason Dixon" <jason@dixongroup.net>
    To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
    Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 9:06 PM
    Subject: Re: Samba errors

    > On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 13:11, Alex wrote:
    > > Aug 6 17:52:50 main nmbd[17890]: This response was from IP
    > > 192.168.254.60, reporting an IP address of 192.168.254.60.
    > > Aug 6 18:28:12 main nmbd[17890]: [2003/08/06 18:28:12, 0]
    > > nmbd/nmbd_namequery.c:query_name_response(112)
    > > Aug 6 18:28:12 main nmbd[17890]: query_name_response: Multiple (2)
    > > responses received for a query on subnet 192.168.254.1 for name
    > > WORKGROUP<1d>.
    > > Aug 6 18:28:12 main nmbd[17890]: This response was from IP
    > > 192.168.254.60, reporting an IP address of 192.168.254.60.
    > >
    > > I get a lot of these messages on my rh9 machine with samba-2.2.8a-1 and
    I
    > > don;t know why or what should I do to fix this. Here is my smb.conf:
    > > ...
    > > All workstations are Win98 and WinXP and all of them have samba as their
    > > wins server.
    > >
    > > I have also foud that at a certain point when I try to bowse the network
    I
    > > can only see a couple of computers (not even half of them). The same
    > > smb.conf I had 2 months ago and everything was working just fine, but
    > > now....
    > > Can you give me some hints on what should I do and why does this happen?
    >
    > Based on the "multiple (2) responses" message, and the fact that you
    > have occassional browsing problems, it sounds to me like you have
    > competing domain masters. Check your Windows XP systems to see if any
    > of them are configured as a PDC. Per the smb.conf manpage...
    >
    > " os level (G)
    > This integer value controls what level Samba advertises itself as for
    > browse elections. The value of this parameter determines whether nmbd(8)
    > has a chance of becoming a local master browser for the WORKGROUP in
    > the local broadcast area.
    >
    > Note :By default, Samba will win a local master browsing election over
    > all Microsoft operating systems except a Windows NT 4.0/2000 Domain
    > Controller. This means that a misconfigured Samba host can
    > effectively isolate a subnet for browsing purposes. See
    > BROWSING.txt in the Samba docs/ directory for details."
    >
    > If you still have problems, I'd suggest performing some payload dumps on
    > your traffic. Unfortunately, it will take some advanced SMB experience
    > to understand what you're seeing, so you might be better off just
    > "tweaking <stuff>". ;-)
    >
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    > Jason Dixon, RHCE
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    > http://www.dixongroup.net
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