Computer Browser service causes VERY slow startup
- From: "Rob" <okami1dotwestnetdotcom.au>
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 18:36:51 +1000
Hi
I have a small LAN with two XPSP2 boxes and a Linux box running Samba. They
can't browse, I get a Permission problem dialog box trying to open the
Workgroup. If I run Samba on the Linux box and force it to be the Master
Browser, the Winboxes see the Samba server, but not themselves. However, if
you happen to know the name of a share, you can enter it directly into the
address bar and and the other machine becomes visible.
If I don't run Samba, then browsing doesn't work at all. And to the point
of this rambling post, starting the Browser services results in a VERY slow
login, like 5mins. I though the machine had frozen. It's set to auto atm,
and doesn't appear to be running.
During all this I've encountered hilarious things like running Explorer and
having it hang trying to find _anything_ (like, my hard drives) - right hand
pane blank.
browstat tells me that "Browsing is active on domain" with the Linux box
gone, and that it's the master browser if i run samba that way.
I'm going around in circles. It's only two machines: we can create a share
and IRC each other to hand out the name, but that ircs me (hehe)
Any websites that have a setup guide? I'm pretty sure that if I could get
the Winboxes to work together with one of them as the MB I could figure out
the rest.
ta
Rob
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