Re: Master Browser broadcast

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From: Eric Chamberlain (eric.chamberlain_at_newsgroups.nospam)
Date: 04/18/04 

Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 21:12:07 -0700

If your not running legacy applications that require the browsing service
(or users that go to network neighborhood and browse for services), you can
disable the computer browser. We have the service disabled on our machines
without any problems.

"Beckie" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3AFA4C08-22C3-4263-8534-B62C9903CCE2@microsoft.com...
> Our network is mixed MS & NetWare. Some of our XP Pro desktops and some of
our Windows 2000 Servers are broadcasting they are master browsers. It seems
to me that's generating unnecessary network traffic, besides the aggravation
of wading through all the warnings in the event logs. I've been told
there's nothing we can do about it though. As a test I disabled my own
Computer Browser service on my XP Pro laptop and I haven't seen any ill
effects. Am I missing something? Thanks in advance.

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