Re: Selling my soul to the devil is the next step...

On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:12:26 +0100, Dr Teeth <no.email.here.please@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hi Chuck,

All 3 computers recognise NUMBER_1 ("PC3") as the master browser, and all 3
computers are recognising each other's presence. The master browser must be on
for either TARDIS_2 or LAPTOP to see each other. You could make either TARDIS_2
or LAPTOP a backup browser, but as soon as you were to carry that computer away
from the network, so it were to lose connectivity with NUMBER_1, it would elect
itself a master browser. You would end up with a workgroup with 2 master
browsers, ie a segmented workgroup.

Other than that, right now I can see no other problem.

How does one make a PC a master browser? I was not aware that such a
thing existed and am sure (as much as I can be at any rate) that any
two of my PCs could be on and connect/interact 100% with each other,
i.e. a 'master' was not needed.

Your original problem reported stated that The problem is that PC1 can not see
PC2; PC3 can see PC2; PC1 can see PC3. That is but 3 relationships out of 6.
How about PC2 to PC1 and PC3, and PC3 to PC1.

Not exactly correct. PC1 can see both PC2 and PC3. It can only browse
PC3, trying to browse PC2 results in an error, screen captured here:
www.drteeth.co.uk/lan/LANerror.jpg. This also happens when PC2 tries
to connect to PC1; again, the name of the PC is visible. I have
uploaded a diagram of the problem, www.drteeth.co.uk/lan/LANprob.jpg.

Check and make sure that NetBT is consistently set on all 3 computers.

I can confirm that it is set to 'enabled' on all PCs, I changed them
all from the default.

Here's the outputs of the cdiag.txt files, as usual, I have uploaded
them to my site. In future, do you prefer files here (word-wrapped) or
au naturelle on my web site?

Guy,

Attached here is fine, generally. Google will provide this for us, with no
problem.

But you could provide us CDiag log for Laptop, instead of for TARDIS_2 twice.

Now the browser issue, and master browser elections, are a lot of fun to deal
with. The NT browser is a peer-peer service, with a master browser being
elected by all of the computers running the browser service. Master browser
conflicts arise when more than one computer elects itself a master browser. Or
sometimes there is no browser to become the master browser. Read my article for
details please.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/04/nt-browser-or-why-cant-i-always-see.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/04/nt-browser-or-why-cant-i-always-see.html

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Cheers,
Chuck, MS-MVP [Windows - Networking]
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/
Paranoia is not a problem, when it's a normal response from experience.
My email is AT DOT
actual address pchuck mvps org.
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