[geeks] Windows 7 File & Printer Sharing Nightmare

[Dan Sikorski]

> On Jan 7, 2015, at 1:51 PM, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If itbs a master browser election issue (which it certainly could be),
you
>> should be also see some events in the event log on all workstations saying
>> that the master browser has gone offline and that an election is taking
place.
>> If certain machines are causing problems with they are the master browser
>> (say, laptops that go on and off the network often), you can configure them
to
>> not try to be the master browser.
>
> Some PCs have power saving on (particularly the ones that get left on for
long periods and not used).
>
>> Also, putting a small samba server on the network and configuring it to
have a
>> higher oslevel could make sure that it is always the master browser when it
is
>> online.
>
> Would this be doable via a Linux + Samba stack? If so I could easily run a
Samba daemon on one of our Linux servers and force that to do it.

Yes, check out the documentation for oslevel in smb.conf.  Highest OS Level
wins.  IIRC, windows clients default to something like 16.