[windows2000] Re: Net view not listing all
- From: Steven Peck DNET <speck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 14:52:05 -0700
If both the systems that were browse masters for the subnet are turned off,
then yes, the people on that subnet may have problems.
I had this happen to me as well. All of a sudden all the systems not on my
subnet disappeared. I discovered that the other admin decided to remotely
turn off the keep browse list reg key without telling me. I picked 5
systems of key users (ie, folks who won't turn their systems off no matter
what :) on each subnet and turned it back on. It's been working fine
since. Five was an arbitrary number, I figured that none were likely to be
off at the same time.
You can enable NetBIOS (?) forwarding on the routers, but it increases
network traffic a bit (bit is such an approximate measurement :). I don't
currently do a lot with routers so I don't remember the exact terminology
any more. As the router was replaced recently, I would suspect that the
previous one passed the traffic and the new one is configured not to.
I hate browse issues myself. Watch when contractors bring in a laptop with
a higher OS level than your network systems, it can take over as the
subnets master browser and as it is not trusted by or knows about the WINS
server, sometimes the local subnets browse list is 'hosed' until you can
hunt down the guilty.
-sp
-----Original Message-----
From: Costanzo, Ray [mailto:rcostanzo@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 1:21 PM
To: 'windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [windows2000] Re: Net view not listing all
Interesting... We don't have any 95 systems anywhere. This just seems
weird to me still. If we had NT servers in our remote locations instead of
those idiotic nOvell ones, I'd say, "let's enable the service on all the
servers" and just leave it at that. But, I mean, what happens if we have a
workstation or two with the browser service running, but the people who use
those computers are off for a week? Do we then wind up not seeing those
computers at that location for a week? Or is the browser list cached
somewhere or something? I hate networks. I need to get back to
programming. <g>
Ray at work
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Monroe [mailto:Frank.Monroe@xxxxxxxxxxx]
>
>
> 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.
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