The remote browse sync parameter of smb.conf is used to announce to another LMB that it must synchronize its NetBIOS name list with our Samba LMB. This works only if the Samba server that has this option is simultaneously the LMB on its network segment.

The syntax of the remote browse sync parameter is:

where 192.168.10.40 is either the IP address of the remote LMB or the network broadcast address of the remote segment.