The global
lm
announce option tells Samba's
nmbd whether or not to send LAN Manager host announcements on behalf of the server. These host announcements may be required by older clients, such as IBM's OS/2 operating system. This announcement allows the server to be added to the browse lists of the client. If activated, Samba will announce itself repetitively at the number of seconds specified by the
lm
interval option.
This configuration option takes the standard boolean values,
yes and
no, which engage or disengage LAN Manager announcements, respectively. In addition, there is a third option,
auto, which causes
nmbd to passively listen for LAN Manager announcements, but not send any of its own initially. If LAN Manager announcements are detected for another machine on the network,
nmbd will start sending its own LAN Manager announcements to ensure that it is visible. You can specify the option as follows:
[global]
lm announce = yes
The default value is
auto. You probably won't need to change this value from its default.
