Topic: e-smith server and MS browsing

[Phil Knopp]

I have been testing (for about a week) the e-smith server (in server-only mode) on a LAN/WAN connected to the internet with fixed IP addresses...the LAN has both Novell and NT servers on the same subnet...today (for some unknown reason) a browser election (Microsoft networking-wise) took place and the e-smith server won the election, sending the NT primary domain server into a SNMP broadcast cycle that lasted for several hours, filling up the system log in the bargain.  The e-smith server was an older Pentium 120 with 32M RAM and 1 G drive, while the PDC is a dual PII450 with 500M RAM and 36G drive running NT4.0 server SP6a.

Does anyone know...how is it that the e-smith server participates in such browser elections? ...and how can this be prevented?

[Charlie Brady]

Phil Knopp wrote:

> I have been testing (for about a week) ..the LAN has both Novell
> and NT servers on
> the same subnet...today (for some unknown reason) a browser
> election (Microsoft networking-wise) took place and the e-smith
> server won the election,

Yippee!!

> sending the NT primary domain server
> into a SNMP broadcast cycle that lasted for several hours,
> filling up the system log in the bargain.

You sure it was SNMP and not UDP?

> The e-smith server
> was an older Pentium 120 with 32M RAM and 1 G drive, while the
> PDC is a dual PII450 with 500M RAM and 36G drive running NT4.0
> server SP6a.
>
> Does anyone know...how is it that the e-smith server
> participates in such browser elections?

The master browser elections are a normal part of WIndows networking, and the samba server on the e-smith server is what is participating in the browser elections.

> ...and how can this be prevented?

If you not going to use the file sharing capabilities of the e-smith server then disabling the samba server would be the easiest way to solve your problem. Log into the server as root, (use Alt-F4 to get a login prompt, then "root"/admin password to get a command line). Then do:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb stop
chmod -x /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb
exit

If you do want to use the windows file sharing feature of the e-smith server/gateway, then you will need to adjust some samba parameters. Send me some email and I'll point you in the right direction.

Charlie

[Phil Haynes]

How do I use my e-smith server for email across subnets connected by a router?
lets say  my router address is 192.168.210.20, and my esmith server is 192.168.210.2
At the moment, I cant even ping the e-smith server across the subnets!

Im using winnt 4.0, ...no problem with my win machines...just set the default gateway.

if the principle is the same how do I set the default gateway?

(e-smith server is also internet gateway (dialup))