Network master browser lost to a linux device, how to disable it ?

[newconroer]

My NAS box lost it's position as the Master Server browser on our network. The device that picked up this role, is Linux based. How do I achieve the following Windows instructions as per this page, but in Linux?

http://www.pctools.com/guides/registry/detail/54/

And if it cannot be done in Linux, how do I hard force a device to pick up the browser role? The NAS box is also Linux.



And any suggestions for how to avoid this happening in the future, or a quick fix if there is one?

 

[ZenZimZaliben]

Well usually this requires more then just base linux. Samba is the standard. Hopefully that will point you in the right direction.

 

[Aquinus]

Do you mean a domain master browser? That's something that's used to support device discovery across multiple IP subnets on Windows networks.

What is it that you're exactly trying to do?

 

[W1zzard]

in the samba config file, in the global section, set local master = no

 

[newconroer]

Do you mean a domain master browser? That's something that's used to support device discovery across multiple IP subnets on Windows networks.
Yes, exactly that - except the network is reporting that the domain master is the undesired Linux device.

Well usually this requires more then just base linux. Samba is the standard. Hopefully that will point you in the right direction.

What is it that you're exactly trying to do?

in the samba config file, in the global section, set local master = no

I want the NAS box to be the domain master for the network - I am still working on how to do that.
In the meantime, I figured if I can get the other Linux device to stop being the master, then it might default to the NAS box any ways. Since I can samba into the Linux device, I'll try to find the right config file.

 

[Aquinus]

I want the NAS box to be the domain master for the network - I am still working on how to do that.
In the meantime, I figured if I can get the other Linux device to stop being the master, then it might default to the NAS box any ways. Since I can samba into the Linux device, I'll try to find the right config file.

You're probably looking for this: https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/NetworkBrowsing.html#DMB

If you have an NT machine on the subnet that you wish to be the LMB, you can disable Samba from becoming an LMB by setting the following options in the [global] section of the smb.conf file as shown in smb.conf for Not Being a Master Browser.

Example 10.3. smb.conf for Not Being a Master Browser

[global]
domain master = no
local master = no
preferred master = no
os level = 0

I would give that a try.

 

[newconroer]

Done and done, let's see how it goes. Now just to figure out the proper SSH command for my Linux NAS box. I don't think I can browse it's OS partition.

 

[Aquinus]

Done and done, let's see how it goes. Now just to figure out the proper SSH command for my Linux NAS box. I don't think I can browse it's OS partition.

You can browse anything on the file system in Linux as long as the user or a group that the user belongs to has permissions to read and execute on the directory. Linux requires executable permissions on a directory to allow you to "ls" it. As a result, samba must have access to the parts of the file system it is accessing.