Subj : Re: Win2k/Samba... To : Jeff Shultz - Shultz Infosystems From : Jeff Shultz - Shultz Infosystems Date : Sun Feb 18 2001 07:32 am From: Jeff Shultz - Shultz Infosystems On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 15:18:40 -0800, in , Jeff Shultz - Shultz Infosystems wrote: >Well, I found out what part of my problem was... it's Samba, >apparently. I finally disabled it entirely and, whallah, my network >neighborhood accurately described what was out there. >So now I need to figure out what setting in Samba was screwing things >up. And I just did... it seems that the secret is to set "local master" to false to insure that it loses, or doesn't try to win, the elections for the local master browser. Don't let Samba be the Master of anything, actually, because Win2k doesn't like that. Also, use encrypted passwords, because Win2k pretty much requires that (that stuff about using unencrypted passwords with 3rd party stuff as well as the registry hack to accomplish the same thing... doesn't work. -- Jeff Shultz "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers..." Henry VI (One of Shakespeare's more timeless ideas) --- BBBS/NT v4.00 MP * Origin: telnet://HarborWebs.com http://HarborWebs.com:8081 (1:379/45) .