Re: PDC Server Not Appearing Network Neighbourhood <-- Heavy Duty Help Required !

From: Dana Brash (dbrash_at_Phongsaly.com)
Date: 10/18/04 

Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 18:11:11 +0800

Do you have File and Printer Sharing enabled? 

-- 
Dana Brash
MCSE, MCDBA, MCSA
dbrash@gmail.com
"Pez" <peter.greenway@active-media.biz> wrote in message 
news:cktmjv$e9h$1$830fa795@news.demon.co.uk...
> All
>
> Before I say anything else, can I say that I develop software for a living 
> and just get the poison chalice job of looking after the servers and the 
> network:  so be gentle with me !
>
> We have a single Windows 2003 Standard Edition machine Dell PE4600 ( 
> AM-PE4600ENIGMA ) acting as
> a primary domain controller and a baby Dell ( running Windows 2003 SE as 
> well ) as a backup domain ( AM-PE4600ULTRA ) 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 PDC machine by IP address all okay
> 2.    Ping the PDC machine by name all okay
> 3.    Ping the PDC machine by fully qualified address all okay
>
> 4.    Ping the BDC machine by IP address all okay
> 5.    Ping the BDC machine by name all okay
> 6.    Ping the BDC 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; I have also re-installed file and print sharing as this 
> was mentioned in a post as being a potential post.
>
> Other Information:
>
> 1.    Net BIOS over TCP is enabled
> 2.    The backup controller gets this ever logged:
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> This is the latest BROWSTAT information:
>
> U:\>browstat status
>
>
> Status for domain ACTIVE_MEDIA on transport 
> \Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{36DC5F08-F5D1-4
> 5A5-9874-CED1733AD2D7}
>    Browsing is active on domain.
>    Master browser name is: AM-PE4600ENIGMA
>        Master browser is running build 3790
>    1 backup servers retrieved from master AM-PE4600ENIGMA
>        \\AM-PE4600ENIGMA
>    There are 0 servers in domain ACTIVE_MEDIA on transport 
> \Device\NetBT_Tcpip_
> {36DC5F08-F5D1-45A5-9874-CED1733AD2D7}
>    There are 1 domains in domain ACTIVE_MEDIA on transport 
> \Device\NetBT_Tcpip_
> {36DC5F08-F5D1-45A5-9874-CED1733AD2D7}
>
> .. which seems okay, but the following seems to be the root of the 
> problem:
>
> U:\>browstat getmaster \device\netbt_el59x1 active_media
> The browser is not bound to transport \device\netbt_el59x1    <----  I 
> think this is the problem
>
> List of transports currently bound to the browser
>
>     1 \Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{36DC5F08-F5D1-45A5-9874-CED1733AD2D7}
>
> BROWSTAT accepts any of the following forms for transport name:
>    1, \device\XXX, XXX
>
> Does anyone know what / if there is a resolution to this.  Is there anyway 
> of re-binding the browser to the transport.
>
> Thanks in anticipation
>
> Peter Greenway
> for Active Media Business Solutions
>

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