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diff --git a/docs/textdocs/BROWSING.txt b/docs/textdocs/BROWSING.txt index 19e7888477..12d3417a29 100644 --- a/docs/textdocs/BROWSING.txt +++ b/docs/textdocs/BROWSING.txt @@ -1,9 +1,24 @@ +Author/s: Many (Thanks to Luke, Jeremy, Andrew, etc.) +Updated: June 29, 1997 +Status: Current - For VERY Advanced Users ONLY + +Summary: This describes how to configure Samba for improved browsing. +===================================================================== + +OVERVIEW: +========= +SMB networking provides a mechanism by which clients can access a list +of machines that are available within the network. This list is called +the browse list and is heavily used by all SMB clients. Configuration +of SMB browsing has been problematic for some Samba users, hence this +document. + +===================================================================== + BROWSING ======== - Samba now fully supports browsing. The browsing is supported by nmbd -and is also controlled by options in the smb.conf file (see -smb.conf(5)). +and is also controlled by options in the smb.conf file (see smb.conf(5)). Samba can act as a local browse master for a workgroup and the ability for samba to support domain logons and scripts is now available. See @@ -51,7 +66,7 @@ have a valid guest account. Also, a lot of people are getting bitten by the problem of too many parameters on the command line of nmbd in inetd.conf. This trick is to not use spaces between the option and the parameter (eg: -d2 instead -Of -d 2), and to not use the -B and -N options. New versions of nmbd +of -d 2), and to not use the -B and -N options. New versions of nmbd are now far more likely to correctly find your broadcast and network addess, so in most cases these aren't needed. @@ -167,7 +182,7 @@ Now examine subnet 2. As soon as N2_B has become the local master browser it looks for a Domain master browser to synchronize its browse list with. It does this by querying the WINS server (N2_D) for the IP address associated with the NetBIOS name -WORKGROUP<1b>. This name was registerd by the Domain master +WORKGROUP<1B>. This name was registerd by the Domain master browser (N1_C) with the WINS server as soon as it was booted. Once N2_B knows the address of the Domain master browser it @@ -279,6 +294,9 @@ least set the parameter to 'no' on all these machines. Machines with "wins support = yes" will keep a list of all NetBIOS names registered with them, acting as a DNS for NetBIOS names. +You should set up only ONE wins server. Do NOT set the +"wins support = yes" option on more than one Samba server. + To set up a Windows NT Server as a WINS server you need to set up the WINS service - see your NT documentation for details. Note that Windows NT WINS Servers can replicate to each other, allowing more @@ -339,7 +357,7 @@ server as a domain master browser set the following option in the domain master = yes -The domain master browser should also probably be the local master +The domain master browser should also preferrably be the local master browser for it's own subnet. In order to achieve this set the following options in the [global] section of the smb.conf file : @@ -458,7 +476,7 @@ broadcast isolated subnet. It is possible to configure two samba servers to attempt to become the domain master browser for a domain. The first server that comes -up with be the domain master browser. All other samba servers will +up will be the domain master browser. All other samba servers will attempt to become the domain master browser every 5 minutes. They will find that another samba server is already the domain master browser and will fail. This provides automatic redundancy, should |