[windows2000] Re: Net view not listing all

  • From: Robert Funderburk <robfunderburk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:40:57 -0400

Man they are hammering you down!

You may have already addressed this:

Can you ping the ip addresses of the computers that are not showing up in
the browse list?  Also, if you do Start | Run | \\computername can you find
the computer or does it time out?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray at home" <listray@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2002 2:32 AM
Subject: [windows2000] Re: Net view not listing all


>
> Well, here's another thing.  I played around with my computer.  I set my
> WINS server to be what it should be, and saw an incomplete list.  Then I
> started WINS on another server that has WINS installed, but not normally
> running.  I rebooted, and saw the same list.  Then I removed my WINS
> server entry altogether, rebooted my machine, started my browser
> service, and ran a net view.  I still saw the same thing.  So, when my
> computer was totally responsible for getting its own list and not
> looking to a WINS server, it still saw the same thing.  But what's even
> more confusing is that I killed the WINS database on our WINS server
> this morning (since our network admin wasn't around <g>) and restarted
> the service so that a fresh new database would be created.  All the damn
> computers on the network showed up in the database.  So, all the
> computers are definitely registering themselves with the WINS server.  I
> keep coming back to the router suspicion.  But, man, I just don't know
> about these things.  I shouldn't even be concerning myself with this.  I
> have some things I have to do, like write some scripts and stuff, that
> depend on a complete computer list, so until this is figured out, I
> can't do these things.  I guess that's why I care.  Oh well, it's a
> three day weekend!
>
> Ray at home
>
> >-----Original Message-----
>
> >
> >
> >Scratching my head . . .
> >
> >Somehow I think that disabling the browser service has
> >something to do with
> >this.  I'm trying to come up with something.
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Ray at home" <listray@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2002 12:25 AM
> >Subject: [windows2000] Re: Net view not listing all
> >
> >
> >>
> >> One WINS server only...
> >>
> >> Ray at home
> >>
> >> >-----Original Message-----
> >> >From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >Ray,
> >> >
> >> >Do you have only 1 WINS server enterprise wide, or do you have
> >> >multiple WINS
> >> >servers?
> >> >
> >> >-Rob
> >>
>
>
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