samba Problem

[Ryan Duff]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:34:43 -0500 (EST), Luc Bouchard <luc at luker.on.ca> 
wrote:

>
> Ryan Duff said:
>
>> and did a service smb restart and went to work and when I came home
>> everything had fiextd itself and I can now browse from my windows 
>> machine.
>>
>> The moral of the story is that if you can't browse your network, you 
>> have 2
>> or more machines fighting to be PCD.
>>
> You seem to be confusing the roles of the Primary Domain Controller (PDC) 
> or Master
> Browser (MB).
>
> The PDC is the server that provides user and resource authentication for 
> a given domain.
> The MB is the server that checks the NetBIOS network looking for hosts.  
> It is the tool
> responsible for making sure that pretty icons appear when double-clicking 
> on Network
> Neighbourhood.
>
> Your problem stems from the fact that Windows XP was trying to dominate 
> your network. Both solutions suggested would fix the problem.
>



My bad. I was thinking of going to bed when I typed that. To fix my 
previous statement:

"The moral of the story is that if you can't browse your network, you have 
2 or more machines fighting to be Master Browser."


Ryan