Samba/browser: Difference between revisions

from HTYP, the free directory anyone can edit if they can prove to me that they're not a spambot
notes, just for now
 
one more note
 
Line 4: Line 4:
* [[smbcontrol]] [[nmbd]] force-election
* [[smbcontrol]] [[nmbd]] force-election
*: forces a browser election
*: forces a browser election
To see nmbd's activity "online", you can start it inside a root konsole as:  nmbd -i -d3    (the "-d3" is the debug level, also -d6 up to -d10 can be used) Before you use this, any other nmbd must have been stopped first.

Latest revision as of 02:06, 26 May 2011

Notes

  • smbclient -L localhost -U%
    gives some brief information about the browser status
  • smbcontrol nmbd force-election
    forces a browser election

To see nmbd's activity "online", you can start it inside a root konsole as: nmbd -i -d3 (the "-d3" is the debug level, also -d6 up to -d10 can be used) Before you use this, any other nmbd must have been stopped first.