Learning the hard way about setting the Domain Master Browser setting in smb.conf --

I used to work for a newspaper company and I was in the IT department. Back in the day, I had several development/test servers that I would use to setup Linux based services and test scripts, etc on. My boss really liked using a call feature that made the recipient's phone ring extra fast; this usually signaled that he was pissed about something. Well, one day, as many before, my phone rang with the emergency ring so I looked over and sure enough, it was my boss, Tony. I picked up the phone and heard "WTF is HMSBOUNTY2???" It's a test server I have. "What the h311 is on it and why is it the Domain Master Browser???" Well, I have SMB configured on it and I must have left the Master Browser option enabled. "Whatever...DISABLE IT!"

In reality, it does not matter which is the DMB. If our servers didn't go down more than my test box, it would have never changed. I think my test box was the DMB for about 6 months before my boss stumbled upon it while working on something else. No one ever complained that all the SMB (file share) requests went through an old PIII running Linux.

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