Techflaws wrote:
Mr-Wolf wrote:
1 Router (Router is configured never to be Master Browser)
And why is that? Since it’s own 24/7 it’s the most suited candidate, right?
Short answer is that, I don’t need to share anything connected to the router, that makes NetBios/SMB disable.
I have to enable router shares to enable router NetBios/SMB service.
Long answer has a lot of factors:
a) I don’t like NetBios/SMB since it was born, it was so long ago I can’t even remember well what were the reasons for that.
I could be wrong because I don’t remember the source of this long hate, but I think some of the reasons were: every machine using it does a lot of broadcasts and I think it advertises shares names to everyone in the LAN, even to non autenticated machines.
b) Because every machine does a lot of broadcasts, I only enable NetBios/SMB if the machines needs to partecipate in the share.
c) My router could never be a good NAS, it lacks the cpu power, besides it also has some firmware bugs, I think it can’t provide a reliable sharing service, if I enable it, it could be a source of problems if it was elected to be the master browser.
d) If we google MB election criteria, we find out that any new machine that is turned on can be elected to be the MB.
Everytime I turn on my win7 computer (even if it’s the last one to turn on) it will get the MB, if I test it I allways find the MB there.
Longer browser running is not the only criteria: Browser Elections
And quote from here: How Browsing Functions
Quote:“Every 11 to 15 minutes an election is held to determine which machine will be the master browser. By the nature of the election criteria used, the machine with the highest uptime, or the most senior protocol version or other criteria, will win the election as DMB.”
Now, I’m glad you didn’t ask why I don’t use DLNA or UPNP