SMB Browser Election Thread (Was: Case for an occasional system refresh or clean install)

[Temlakos]

To Tim in Australia:

That must be it. The machine I was retiring (see the other thread) was 
indeed the Master Browser. The replacement machine and the laptop both 
accepted it in that role.

And after I retired the machine, neither of the other machines could browse.

After awhile, they would see the Windows machine. Which does not run all 
the time, by the way, but I will address that in another thread.

Anyway: after several hours of running the replacement machine and the 
laptop, and correcting the configuration file and service-start 
instructions on both, they seem to have settled on a regular Master 
Browser. Hosts come up very quickly, without delay.

With that said: you mentioned installing Network File System in a 
Windows environment. (Mine's Windows 8.1.) I'd like to know how to get 
NFS to run between two Linux boxes. That would be a start. Then I could 
think about installing an NFS service and configurator on the Windows 
machine.

Temlakos