On Friday 18 January 2008, Dragan Krnic wrote:
> What has "preferred master" to do with this passwords?
> I'm really puzzled

I'm a bit puzzled also. Because we changed that early on (took out
non-essential statements - I was assisting) to simplify the smb.conf
and as far as I remember it didn't make a difference. There was a group
of changes made when it started to work properly and we didn't, at that
time, go back and try to tie down exactly which one(s) solved it.

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Dragan Krnic wrote:
|>> If I enter userid Only, I gain full access to the share without
|>> Ever entering a password
|> This incorrect behavior is caused as a result of
|> "preferred master = yes" in the smb.conf file.
|> If I comment this line out in smb.conf, everything
|> works fine.
|
| What has "preferred master" to do with this passwords?
| I'm really puzzled, especially because I set my PDC as
| "preferred master", even though it would probably by
| default ("auto") chose to be one.

Virtually zero. All it does it make is slightly more likely that it will
win a browsing election. If you read the smb.conf manpage, I think it is
pretty clear, but it's been awhile since I read it.

That COULD have an effect if it disables browsing to the proper password
server, but it has no direct effect.

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On 1/18/08, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
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> Dragan Krnic wrote:
> |>> If I enter userid Only, I gain full access to the share without
> |>> Ever entering a password
> |> This incorrect behavior is caused as a result of
> |> "preferred master = yes" in the smb.conf file.
> |> If I comment this line out in smb.conf, everything
> |> works fine.
> |
> | What has "preferred master" to do with this passwords?
> | I'm really puzzled, especially because I set my PDC as
> | "preferred master", even though it would probably by
> | default ("auto") chose to be one.
>
> Virtually zero. All it does it make is slightly more likely that it will
> win a browsing election. If you read the smb.conf manpage, I think it is
> pretty clear, but it's been awhile since I read it.
>
> That COULD have an effect if it disables browsing to the proper password
> server, but it has no direct effect.

There might be something to it, if "preferred master" is masking the actual
authentification server. But still, was it really the case?
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