Re: PDC Not Appearing In Network Neighbourhood !!

From: Peter Greenway (p.greenway_at_a-m-b-s.com)
Date: 10/10/04 

Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 08:54:30 +0100

Hello Ace

Thanks for you reply, we do not use / did not think that we needed to use
WINS under 2003 ??

The really frustrating thing is that all of the XP Pro machines attached to
the domain appear absolutely fine.

Interestingly enough we were in the office yesterday ( Sat ) setting up a
backup DC, we did little more that put the operating system on, named the
machine and did a DCPROMO - worked fine and downloaded all of the AD ( from
the PDC that did not appear earlier in my post ) etc and that did not appear
either !!!

I dont know if this will help but the backup DC after a few hours of being
used started to issue these messages:

Event ID 8032.
Type Browser.
The browser service has failed to retrieve the backup list too many times on
transport \Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{FD65145F-ECAC-4E77-A846-33732DC39120}. The
backup browser is stopping.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at h

This seems to point to the same sort of problem ???

Thanks for you help.

Peter Greenway

"Ace Fekay [MVP]"
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> In news:ck5fba$mjc$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk,
> Peter Greenway <p.greenway@a-m-b-s.com> made a post then I commented below
>> All
>>
>> We have a single Windows 2003 Standard Edition machine Dell PE4600
>> acting as a primary domain controller on a very small network. We
>> have a strange problem in so far as the machine does not appear in
>> the domain if you browse the domain in network neighbourhood - *all*
>> other clients attached to the domain do but the server itself does
>> not !!
>> You can from a client:
>>
>> 1. Ping the machine by IP address all okay
>> 2. Ping the machine by name all okay
>> 3. Ping the machine by fully qualified address all okay
>>
>> The machine has two network cards installed which are adaptive load
>> balanced using the Intel Pro Chipset utility.
>>
>> All applications including Exchange and SQL/Server seem to be working
>> absolutely fine.
>>
>> We have de-installed and re-installed DNS, done various boots and it
>> still does not appear.
>>
>> We are banging our heads against a wall on this one, I am sure it
>> seems to point to a DNS configuration issue but we do not have enough
>> experience to identify where. DHCP adds and removes entries into the
>> reverse lookup zone when clients log on etc
>>
>> Tis very strange and any help, pointers or suggestions would be
>> gratefully received.
>>
>> Peter Greenway
>> Active Media Business Solutions
>
> I would like to point out that DNS doesn't have anything to do with
> Network Neighborhood, but NetBIOS does.. Kevin provided the appropriate
> links for you on the Browser service, which is what the Neighborhood is
> based on. Since you just turned on NetBIOS, it may take upto 15 - 24 (if
> memory serves correct), minutes to retrieve the list.
>
> Are you running WINS on your network?
>
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> Ace
>
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>
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