Browsing <again>

[sharyn]

I am still troubleshooting (or trying to) some browsing issues I'm having on my network, mainly, that my browse list is only complete some of the time, other times, its just a partial list.

WINS seems to be working regardless as I can connect to any machine on the network, including machines on remote subnects by typing \\machinename in the address box in network neighborhood.

I was playing with browstat and decided to run the getmaster query. What I received was:
unable to get master: access is denied.

This is when running the getmaster query for my win2k Domain which is fdc.com. When I run it for my old domain (prewin2k), fdc, I get the correct master browser.

Why would I get an access denied error message when running browstat? I'm running it from the first upgraded win2k DC, which is also the pdc emulator and the domain master browser, logged on as administrator.

TIA,
Sharyn

 

[brontosaurus]

hey Sharyn. Browsing is a big pain in the @#$%. Have you seen this article? It's pretty good:

http://www.winnetmag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=25643

I can't tell you why you'd be getting an access denied, though. If I find anything, I'll post it.

 

[sharyn]

Hiya Bront

Was wondering if u were still around.

Browsing IS a pain in the @$$ but it was never this bad until the day I converted my NT 4.0 pdc to my first win2k DC. Browsing has never been right since and it was FINE when I was running all nt4.0 servers.

Anyway, this is still the problem from wayyyyyyyyyy back, but I only have time to troubleshoot it every once in awhile.

Thanks..I'll check out this article right now.

Sharyn