[KLUG Members] Win XP showing up as Master and Server in smbclient command

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> Is your workgroup set correctly on all machines? Do you want the Samba server
> to be the master browser? What is 'os level' set to? What are 'local master'
> and 'domain master' set to? What version of Samba?

Samba 2.2.x versions and XP can get a little dicey depending upon your patch
level (of XP).  Should work for basic file & print,  but things like browsing,
changing passwords, etc... can act really strange (like the don't anyway).

One thing you can do is enable WINS service on the Samba box and tell all the
CIFS clients to use if for WINS.  You can do this via DHCP, if you use DHCP.
ftp://ftp.kalamazoolinux.org/pub/pdf/NetBIOSNameSpace.pdf

Personally I also like to set 'LM Announce' on all M$ CIFS clients to "No"; 
this is under microsoft client properties.  What does a modern network need LM
announcements for?  Nothing I've ever discovered.  Somewhere there is also a
setting for disabling 'Browse Master',  but I can't recall off hand how to dig
it out.

You should have something like these directives -

[global]
   workgroup = BACKBONE
   server string = What NT Should Have Been
   netbios name = barbel
   local master = yes
   os level = 200
   domain master = yes
   preferred master = yes
   wins support = yes
   name resolve order = wins host
   dns proxy = yes
....