Re: My Network Neighborhood is EMPTY



Thanks John for this info... I didn't know this service existed... Anyhow, I
don't know why but after restarting the machines for the 100th time, it all
started working again!!
I will study up on this service now!! ;-))
Marco

> One computer on subnet is elected as "browse master". A computer
> with a misconfigured firewall can cause browser wars on the network
> and become the browser but cannot list the computers on the network
> because the firewall prevents the broadcasts from being accepted and
> enumerated. Check your network for such a machine and either
> disable/fix its firewall or disable the browser service on that
> machine.
>
> HTH,
> John


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