[windows2000] Re: Net view not listing all
- From: Frank Monroe <Frank.Monroe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 16:13:59 -0400
I have to agree with Microsoft on this one. You should have a master
browser on each subnet. If this was working before, I can only assume there
was some Windows 95 system acting as the master browser on the working
subnets and maybe that system is gone. The reason why I say this is
disabling the browser on a Windows 95 system is not as simple as setting the
service to manual on NT. Also, even if you do set it to manual on NT, it
may be started by another service and then become the master browser. If
you want to turn off the browser elections, you should set the service to
disabled. But you should still leave two NT/2000 systems with it set to
automatic per subnet.
-----Original Message-----
From: Costanzo, Ray [mailto:rcostanzo@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 3:38 PM
To: 'windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [windows2000] Re: Net view not listing all
Here is the alleged solution. I don't know enough to know if this makes
sense.
About a year ago, I wrote a script to set the browser service to manual
startup on all our workstations since we have a WINS server. After doing
that, everything was fine, and we were no longer have "browser wars" on our
network. Then, ten months later (about two months ago), we suddenly were
only seeing 6 of our 48 remote locations. That was right around the time we
got a new router.
Our network guy spent a lot of time on the phone with Microsoft today, and
according to them, 9 times out of 10, these problems are not router related.
The supposed solution is to start the browser service on one workstation in
each remote location (each subnet?). What's a subnet? I don't know. Our
IP address configuration here is as such:
192.168.1.* - main office
192.168.101.* some remote location
192.168.102.* some remote location
192.168.103.* some remote location
192.168.104.* some remote location
and so on. Is each of those a "subnet?"
I don't buy this solution of enabling the browser service on one computer
per subnet. The reason I don't buy it is that we had the browser service
disabled on all of our workstations for 10 months, and everything was
totally fine. And isn't it normal to have the browser service disabled in a
WAN when you have a WINS server?
I'm going beyond the things that I know about here. All I can do is
theorize, but I can also question things that just don't seem to make sense.
Thanks for any wisdom,
Ray at work
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Monroe [mailto:Frank.Monroe@xxxxxxxxxxx]
>
>
>
> Keep in mind, the browser list really doesn't have anything
> to do with DNS
> or WINS except to find who is the master browser for the
> subnet that you are
> on. Once your client finds this out, it queries that server.
> The browser election process in each subnet will determine
> who is the master
> browser for that subnet. Each master browser has to be able
> to determine
> who is the master browser for the other subnets so that they
> can all tell
> each other what is in their individual browser lists so that
> each subnet has
> a complete list.
>
> If you have any clients that are marked hidden, they of
> course will not show
> up in the browser list. If none of the clients in a subnet
> have the browser
> service running, that subnet will not show up in the list. A
> lot of times,
> Windows 95 systems win the browser election and become the
> master browser of
> a subnet, but do a poor job at it. Also, if you have routers that are
> forwarding broadcasts, this will cause the election process
> to break and you
> may have subnets that think someone system on another subnet
> is the master
> browser for that subnet and no system will be elected for that subnet.
>
> Frank
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