Author: risdo, Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:41 pm Post subject: Mac declares itself to be master browser ---- My office has a peer-to-peer, fixed ip network, which consists of 15 Windows computers (mostly XP), and one Mac G5 running OSX Panther.
My problem: the Mac keeps declaring itself to be the master browser on the network, and I don't want it to.
Does anyone know how to turn off the master browser feature on a Mac?
Thanks,
Kevin
Author: ryanduff, Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 12:46 am Post subject: edit your smb.conf file ---- you need to check your smb.conf file (/etc/smb.conf)
make sure you have:
Code:
domain master = no
local master = no
preferred master = no
under the [global] group
then just restart the machine. Hopefully one of the other machines on your network will win the election for new master browser.
Author: risdo, Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 1:23 pm Post subject: ---- ^ Thank you very much. I will do it immediately.