Master Browser issue ....WINS

[toddp123]

Trying to solve what I believe to be a Master Browser issue. WINS appears to be working fine and has all clients registered but Network Places does not show all clients and varies through out the day-it varies alot.

Servers= Win 2000 with DCs Native Mode
Clients 2000 and XP

"BRowstat status" gives following results:

DC1 says "master name cannot be determined from GeTAdapterStatus"(it does show three backup servers though)
DC2 says master browser is DC2
DC3 says master browser is DC3
DC5 says master browser is DC5

No DC4

On PCs running browstat status gives:
PC1 says another PC(not server) is the Master Browser (PC21889)
PC2 says -same PC21889
PC3 says -DC2 -unable to retrieve server list

Backup servers that show up with the browstat command are different on each machine -many different ones.

Roles
RID=DC02
PDC=DC02
Infastructure=DC05
Schema=DC02
Domain Naming=DC02

We have 1500 computers in this domain with no internal firewalls and hoping to not have to do registry changes if possible.

 

[toddp123]

Also I have run these

DC01
browstat getmaster \device\NetBT_Tcpip_{2B2FE694-6684-4647-B5BD-7378470838E5} corp
=Access is Denied
browstat getmaster \device\NetBT_Tcpip_{2B2FE694-6684-4647-B5BD-7378470838E5} corp
=DC02

DC02
browstat getmaster \device\NetBT_Tcpip_{0F6CD0FE-9C04-43F4-937C-3BD35E98FF2F} corp
=DC02
browstat getPDC \device\NetBT_Tcpip_{0F6CD0FE-9C04-43F4-937C-3BD35E98FF2F} corp
=DC02

DC03
browstat getmaster \device\NetBT_Tcpip_{4A3CDA76-0587-4443-9273-93e9f67D970B} corp
=DC03
browstat getpdc \device\NetBT_Tcpip_{4A3CDA76-0587-4443-9273-93e9f67D970B} corp
=DC02

DC05
browstat getmaster \device\NetBT_Tcpip_{4A3CDA76-0587-4443-9273-93e9f67D970B} corp
=DC05
browstat getpdc \device\NetBT_Tcpip_{4A3CDA76-0587-4443-9273-93e9f67D970B} corp
DC02

 

[WhoKilledKenny]

From you DC that is the PDC emulator - Stop and restart the "Computer Browser" service. This may resolve your issue. In the NT days when computers where not showing up in the network neighborhood, this procedure would resolve the issue.

Hope this works...

 

[toddp123]

No help....might try do via registry but there must be something else wrong.

 

[chipk]

A little more information. How many different vlans do you have on your network? Do you have a Cisco router between these segments with the "ip helper-address" configured? Are you seeing browser elections in your DC logs?

 

[GlenJohnson]

What are the OS's? I've had problems in the past and have turned off browsing on all w2k pro machines and later and seen network traffic increase. Just a thought.

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[chipk]

Oh, Glen's post just reminded me, if you have any dual-homed servers that are potential master browsers, this will wreak havoc on browser operations. You can prevent those from becoming Master Browsers by disabling the Computer Browser service.