Notify me of new posts via email. Create a free website or blog at WordPress. Troubleshooting Network Neighborhood Problems ». Browstat is very small 40K , and needs no complicated install procedure. Download browstat, as above. Copy the downloaded file to any folder in the Path. For instance, for my domain PChuck, I would run browstat listwfw pchuck If you need to produce output to a file, for maybe posting it on the Internet, read about Redirected Output and Concatenated, Redirected Output, if appropriate.
Hit Start. Hit All Programs. Hit Command Shell. Browsing is active on domain. My master browser is PChuck2. Both PChuck1 and PChuck2 are running the browser. There are 2 servers ie PChuck1 and PChuck2 in my domain workgroup. This is a clean, balanced run. Ask for help. Troubleshoot the problem. Read more about the problem. Browstat is trying to access the registry on the master browser. If the master browser is another computer, it can only do that thru the Remote Registry service.
If the master browser is running on a computer with XP Pro with the RRS running, or if it's running another operating system altogether, continue diagnosing. Since we see "Browsing is active on domain", plus a master browser is identified, we probably don't have physical connectivity issues, so concentrating on the logical issues would seem more productive. Upon doing so for various values, we find some familiar translations. SMBs can be blocked by inconsistent NetBT settings , and by personal firewalls , as well as the obvious physical networking problems.
If SMBs are blocked, you'll get this error from browstat, as well as seeing the symptoms that brought you to this web site. Make sure that NetBT is enabled on all computers. Next, make sure that at least one computer on your LAN does NOT show this error in browstat, as you need at least one computer running as a browser. Using Troubleshooting Network Neighborhood Problems as a guide would be useful in this case. You may also benefit from reading The NT Browser Share This Post!
Post a Comment. Home About Us Blogging Buzz. I suggest to disable one of the interfaces. Run a browstat status to see who the browse master is for the segment.
To check current status of the browse service on the domain, run: browstat status. You should get a response similar to: Browsing is active on domain. Note, the machine that is the current master browser will either be, depending if the machine type exists on the segment: the PDC Emulator, a replica DC on the segment, a member server, joined workstation, or workgroup member, Unix or Linux with SAMBA, etc.
If you find a device is winning the election, then we need to disable that ability in the device. Copy and paste the transport that does show up into your next command:. Then check the event logs to see which machine won the election. I know, most of you probably wondered what the order of who would be the winner during a Master Browser election.
The winner of a browse master election process is based on operating system version and role. So if a Windows XP client is on a subnet by itself, then yes, it may become an MB if nothing else beats it.
If the DC is multihomed, then that will definitely throw a wrench into it. The following list shows the order of precedence of which operating system will win. Windows Server 4. Windows 8 5.
Windows Server R2 6. Windows 7 7. Windows Server 8. Windows Vista 9. I have Windows R2 Domain controller bit. One is the Domain Controller, plus three others. If I do a NET VIEW from any other computer on my network, I get a listing of every other computer on the network - including a couple of other servers running Server 08 64 bit, Server 03, and every desktop machine. Obviously, something is wrong with the Browser functionality.
The four servers that are showing up in the abbreviated list have had the same registry edit applied to them. Since they are all Server machines, I can't use BrowStat to determine where they are getting their list from. Using BrowStat on all of the machines that have the "nearly complete" list shows that they are all getting their machine list from the server I have defined as a Backup Domain Browser. Netiher setting solved the problem. The key problem is that the machines on the abbreviated list include my domain controller, my Anti-Virus and Patch Management server, and our Mission-critical software server - in short the three most important machines on my network.
These machines are intermittantly unavailable - I think it's when Browser elections are being forced, but that's not confirmed yet.
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