Windows XP and samba

Someone just installed two WinXP boxes on my network. I have a samba
server that is also supposed to act as the master browser.

Well, one of the XP boxes simply announced itself as the master browser,
and apparently refuses to relinquish that lofty title. My samba server
can't win the election, no matter that I have all of the election
parameters cranked up to max. This is screwing up my network, as that
box has no idea where anything is, so other windows boxes can't get at
printers, etc.

Here's the snippet from my smb.conf file:

os level = 255
preferred master = yes
local master = yes
domain master = yes
dns proxy = yes
wins support = yes

So, anyone know what I can do (besides pound the offending box into
scrap) to get Windows XP not to act as a master browser?

(Yes I know this is marginally OT, but I figure there is much more
knowledge here about this than in the Win* groups.)

-Dondo

Joe,
I have three RH 7.2 servers with the latest Samba software installed,
acting as file servers for a mix of Win 95, Win 98 and Win Xp Home
clients.
Everything was pretty straight forward about the connections.
I also have my Linux box acting as a DHCP server which has worked
well.
Could that be your problem ...maybe too simple a solution.
I will check my Samba configuration in the morning and get back to you
if it is any different from what you have posted.

JR

joe <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed)>...
> Someone just installed two WinXP boxes on my network. I have a samba
> server that is also supposed to act as the master browser.
>
> Well, one of the XP boxes simply announced itself as the master browser,
> and apparently refuses to relinquish that lofty title. My samba server
> can't win the election, no matter that I have all of the election
> parameters cranked up to max. This is screwing up my network, as that
> box has no idea where anything is, so other windows boxes can't get at
> printers, etc.
>
> Here's the snippet from my smb.conf file:
>
> os level = 255
> preferred master = yes
> local master = yes
> domain master = yes
> dns proxy = yes
> wins support = yes
>
> So, anyone know what I can do (besides pound the offending box into
> scrap) to get Windows XP not to act as a master browser?
>
> (Yes I know this is marginally OT, but I figure there is much more
> knowledge here about this than in the Win* groups.)
>
> -Dondo