Text 29651, 47 rader
Skriven 2007-03-15 17:35:54 av Jeff Guerdat
     Kommentar till en text av Russell Tiedt
Ärende: Re: VISTA
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Russell Tiedt wrote:

>  ml> one piece of info that might come in handy is to set "os level" to 65
>  ml> or higher so that win boxes can't "outvote" the linux domain
>  ml> controller samba setup during the netbios/netbeui "who is going to be
>  ml> the browse master" wars... it greatly helped here but i've also no NT
>  ml> style win boxes... just a few w98ses...
> 
> Thanks for the tip ...

I've used this, too, but it's worth noting that current versions of 
Samba default to a level of 20 which should be sufficient.  From the man 
page:

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. This parameter
    is largely auto-configured in the Samba-3 release series and  it  is
    seldom  necessary  to manually over-ride the default setting. Please
    refer to chapter 9 of the Samba-3 HOWTO document for further  infor-
    mation regarding the use of this parameter.

    Default: os level = 20

    Example: os level = 65

Also, this from http://ps-ax.com/samba-fq.html:

How to make Samba the Browse Master on a network
First, some background on 'Browse Masters' and what determines who gets 
to be one. A value called the 'OS level' must be set high enough to 
ensure that the proper machine will win the election amongst other NT 
machines, or even Windows95 machines. An NT domain controller uses an OS 
level of 32. In order for your Samba machine to beat this during the 
election process, it's OS level must be higher than this. I have had 
good luck with setting the OS level to 34 previously. The OS level can 
go up to 255, but Microsoft machines will not look above 32. Setting it 
above 32 is only useful for other Samba servers.
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