Re: Master Browser Issues - YUK!

You can do a lot of reading about the browser stuff, for instance in the
NT4.0 resource-kit. If you don't want the machine to become a master browser,
or even participate in the election, it's ok to set the keys in the registry.
As long as you don't do it on all your machines, it won't hurt. You can even
designate some of your servers to always have some kind of browser role.

The errors you are getting sound to me that some services don't start. Check
your services to see if all the services that er stated as Automatic are
excually started. Could be that Netlogon isn't started. Did you play around
with the Microsoft Client? (delete and reïnstall for instance)

And off course you checked your firewall rules, for the test you can set it
so that all internal and localhost can do all to localhost and internal...

It is good practice to always set the duplex-settings fixed as they should.
It will make your life easier, and mostly, a lot faster. Especially with a
file-server, but it won't hurt your ISA either. Although, it will probably
not give you any faster boot-times, unless it is a Domain Controller, wich
your ISA isn't (off course)


"Mike Malter" wrote:

> DNS is good.
>
> I keep the duplex-settings to auto (I don't like to force this setting). I can see
> that the lan side card is one gigabit.
>
> ISA Server is configured to use WINS on the lan side.
>
> NIC order is lan then wan.
>
> I saw the article about changing the registry. Althought it is written for 2000, I
> can see it applies to 2003. The problem I have with setting the registry here is
> that while I might be forcing the issue on one hand, I intuitively sence I might be
> covering up a larger issue whose tip of the iceberg symptom is a master browser
> problem. However I did change the setting just temporairly.
>
> Here are three errors I get when I start up the ISA box. Can you tell me what you
> think?
>
> 1. --------
> The session setup to the Windows NT or Windows 2000 Domain Controller
> \\mmant6.joyousliving.com for the domain JOYOUSLIVING is not responsive. The current
> RPC call from Netlogon on \\MMANT1 to \\mmant6.joyousliving.com has been cancelled.
> ---------
>
> 2.--------
> This computer was not able to set up a secure session with a domain controller in
> domain JOYOUSLIVING due to the following:
> The remote procedure call was cancelled.
> This may lead to authentication problems. Make sure that this computer is connected
> to the network. If the problem persists, please contact your domain administrator.
> ADDITIONAL INFO
> If this computer is a domain controller for the specified domain, it sets up the
> secure session to the primary domain controller emulator in the specified domain.
> Otherwise, this computer sets up the secure session to any domain controller in the
> specified domain.
> -----------
>
> 3. --------
> The kerberos subsystem encountered a PAC verification failure. This indicates that
> the PAC from the client MMANT1$ in realm JOYOUSLIVING.COM had a PAC which failed to
> verify or was modified. Contact your system administrator.
> ------------
>
> "Toine" <Toine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:C93CB746-BF06-4595-ACB7-920D51B20F51@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Try 'master browser registry' as search-string.
> > It returns this link for example:
> > http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/2000/server/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/2000/server/reskit/en-us/cnet/cnfi_brs_vcer.asp
> >
> > As for the slow startup, do you have DNS properly configured?
> > Did you set the duplex-settings of your NIC fixed (also on the switch)?
> > You said you use WINS, do you have your ISA server configured to use WINS?
> > Try without the WINS configured for your ISA server.
> > Try to change the order in wich the NIC's get configured at startup
> > (In Windows: Network Connections -> Advanced -> Advanced Settings -> Set
> > your WAN connection to be the last one)
> >
> > Hope one of this is a solution...
> >
> >
> > "Mike Malter" wrote:
> >
> >> I already searched the Microsoft site, and actually there are no relevant articles
> >> to my situation. Do you know of a specific article I might have missed?
> >>
> >> My server is slower than the other servers when starting up only, once I login, it
> >> is fast.
> >>
> >> No, I did not promote ISA Server to a domain controller, this is a member server.
> >>
> >> The only relevant event viewer message is this one:
> >>
> >> The master browser has received a server announcement from the computer MMANT1
> >> that believes that it is the master browser for the domain on transport
> >> NetBT_Tcpip_{34B1542D-92C7-4414-B4. The master browser is stopping or an election
> >> is being forced.
> >> Also, in my WINS server, the --__MSBROWSE__- record is also set to MMANT1 from
> >> MMANT6 which is supposed to be the master browser.
> >>
> >> Are there any protocols I should be using in an access rule to prevent this sort
> >> of thing?
> >>
> >> "Toine" <Toine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >> news:2540411B-DCE3-4863-A46F-A04050D60829@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> > Search Microsoft.com, there are a lot off articles about how to prevent a
> >> > machine becoming a master-browser. Some settings in the registry would do the
> >> > job.
> >> > I can't say that my server became a lot slower when I installed ISA 2004 on
> >> > to it. Do you get any other events in the eventviewer?
> >> > Did you promote the server to a domain controller?
> >> >
> >> > "Mike Malter" wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> I am introducing ISA Server 2004 Standard into my network and am getting Master
> >> >> Browser Errors.
> >> >>
> >> >> Here is the text of the error:
> >> >>
> >> >> The master browser has received a server announcement from the computer MMANT1
> >> >> that
> >> >> believes that it is the master browser for the domain on transport ...... The
> >> >> master
> >> >> browser is stopping or an election is being forced.
> >> >>
> >> >> This is basically a virgin box as it is not even in production yet, we just got
> >> >> it
> >> >> built out and on the network. The only thing on it is the Block NetBIOS rule
> >> >> in
> >> >> Tom's book, some connectivity verifiers and my desktop is in the Remote
> >> >> Management
> >> >> Computers, Computer Set.
> >> >>
> >> >> The other thing is that this box takes a long time to boot up - longer than any
> >> >> other
> >> >> box. Is that normal?
> >> >>
> >> >> The way we built the box was to put Windows 2003 Standard, then service pack
> >> >> it, then
> >> >> get on the internet and patch it. Then it joined the domain and finally we put
> >> >> on
> >> >> ISA Server 2004 and then put SP1 on.
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks for any help or assistance.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
>
>
>
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