On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 at 09:57:40AM -0500, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > Yes. the ^I Tabs have been removed... However, it does not explain the > below.. The host name does not appear in smb.conf It is a Win2000 > Professional laptop on the same network. None of the Win2000 or Samba > configs have changed in months. > > nmbd[2009]: ^I^IFRED-LAPTOP2 40051003 () > ^IWORKGROUP(1) current master browser = FRED-LAPTOP2 That just says the currentg master browser (A windows thing) is FRE-LAPTOP2 (presumably on your network). The master browser is who keeps your subnet's name list. Kind of like the sub-nets DNS server for smb/nmb...
Note: Setting samba to participate in master browser elections is a bad idea as it sometimes mucks up the network.. Regards, -- Phil PGP/GPG Key: http://www.zionlth.org/~plhofmei/ wget -O - http://www.zionlth.org/~plhofmei/ | gpg --import XP Source Code: #include <win2k.h> #include <extra_pretty_things_with_bugs.h> #include <more_bugs.h> #include <require_system_activation.h> #include <phone_home_every_so_often.h> #include <remote_admin_abilities_for_MS.h> #include <more_restrictive_EULA.h> #include <sell_your_soul_to_MS_EULA.h> //os_ver="Windows 2000" os_ver="Windows XP"
