[KLUG Members] Win XP crashes NMB

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > Shouldn't crash NMDB either way.  Do you get anything in log.nmbd?  Set
> > the "debug level = 10" and make it crash.  Then post the last say ~100
> > lines of the log.
> Well, in the log these lines seem significant: 

To debug the crash you almost certainly need to raise the debug level;
10 is the normal level for troubleshooting crashes.

> Samba name server LINUX9 <sambaserver> is now a local master browser for
> workgroup MYWORKGROUP on subnet 192.168.0.103 <ipaddress of samba
> server>
> 
> But then later it says:
> 
> nmbd/nmbd_browsesync.c:find_domain_master_name_query_fail(358)
>   find_domain_master_name_query_fail:
>   Unable to find the Domain Master Browser name MYWORKGROUP<1b> for the
> workgroup MYWORKGROUP.
>   Unable to sync browse lists in this workgroup.

Yep, surpisingly this is normal.  These are browsing wars, and go on
non-stop on Windows networks.  WINS save you from some of the fall out
of this broken-by-design technique of managing namespace.