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email@hidden wrote:
Hmmmm...I've never seen the Master Browser settings as an option in SA.
You should have *only one* browser for each subnet. (This requires more
explanation, but browsing is really an separate service *unrelated*
to auth)
These settings are on the 'Advanced' pane, second section down, beneath
the 'Code Page' drop-down. The Browser options are labeled 'Services',
and are enabled/disabled with a tick box.
Right you are. Normally you only want this on for the PDC, but there
*is* a case where you may need it. The browsing service is really a
vestigial thing left over from Windows 3.1 circa 1990 and is a source
of endless confusion because it has nothing to do with authentication.
Anyway, a browse master is just a machine that keeps a list of shared
resources on behalf of all the other machines on a subnet. It's just
a list which clients can, well, browse. But the client then has to
contact the machine offering the resource in order to use it. Servers
also can have resources not on the list. Thus when you look at your
network neighborhood, you may see resources you can't use and not
see ones that you can --- explain that to an ordinary user!
The browse mechanism works via broadcast packets and so can't propagate
across a subnet boundary. Therefore, you need on "master browser" on
each subnet. These subsidiary masters will contact the "domain master
browser" to update a consolidated list. The "domain master browser"
should be the PDC.
The really wacko thing is that *any* Windows machine is capable of being a
master browser (unless you go in and disable the "Computer Browser" service)
and so the machines hold "elections" to decide who will have the list.
To keep myself sane, I turn off the "Computer Browser" service on all
clients and make sure only Xserve (or Linux machine) per subnet has
it on in Samba.
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