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 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. ).|.( '.'___'.' ' '(>~<)' ' -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-ooO-=(_)=-Ooo-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Petr [Dingo] Dvorak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coder - Purple Dragon MUD pdragon.org port 3333 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-[ 369D93 ]=-=- Debian version 2.2.18pre21, up 4 days, 13 users, load average: 1.01 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
