Re: Browsing with Network Neighborhood

From: Jeff (Jeff_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/13/04 

Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:24:15 -0700

Are you saying I just nned to disable the computer browser service on all the
client PC's, and that should fix the problem. Do I need a WINS server ?

Thanks,
Jeff

"Hans-Georg Michna" wrote:

> On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 17:17:02 -0700, "Jeff"
> <Jeff@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >We have 6 Windows 2000 (SP4) servers that are in Mixed mode, 3 of these
> >servers are DC's, and 3 are member servers. Sometimes on our client PC's
> >(Win XP - SP1) when we browse the network, not all of the servers and clients
> >show up. But sometimes if we wait a period of time during the day the
> >machines will show up.
> >We do have DNS servers in our network.
>
> Jeff,
>
> this is a common problem with the computer browser service,
> which seems to be a bit unreliable. It depends, for example, on
> the sequence and timing of when the computers are switched on.
>
> If you have a few servers that run continuously, you could set
> all other computers, particularly client computers, not to
> become computer browsers.
>
> Details are in http://www.michna.com/kb/wxnet.htm.
>
> Hans-Georg
>
> --
> No mail, please.
>

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