Re: Broswer problem continued...yes I read all other posts

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From: Robert L [MS-MVP] (noreply_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:09:10 -0600

have you used browstat to check the maste browser status.
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  "Chris B" <ChrisB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:4BBE6AB8-B6B6-4C7F-86E4-24FAE2CE9F26@microsoft.com...
  Ok, After much research, reading through all of the browser problems in this
  group, I still have problems on my domain. Here is the situation:

  1 domain, 2 domain controllers on Windows 2003 mixed mode active directory.
  2 subnets
  Using WINS on DC1

  Problem: Windows XP clients cannot see DC1 or DC2 in My Network places,
  entire network, domain. They aslo cannot see clients on the other subnet that
  they are not connected to. DC1 and DC2 do not see any clients at all.
  Sometimes, they see one or two clients, but never stays.

  So following all these posts about it, I verifed some things:
  DC1 was the first domain controller. It is the PDCE (emmulator). Registry
  setting IsDomainMaster = true, KeepMasterList = Yes. If I perform nbtstat -n
  on DC1 it has the 1B code registered for netbios table. It also shows up in
  the WINS table as the Domain Master Browser (DMB). Servers and clients do not
  have a problem connecting to share by either ip address or netbios names.
  When I perform a "browstat status" from DC1 it says its the master browser.
  If I do it from a client on the same subnet, it says a random other client is
  the MB. So, if I stop the computer browser service on the one machine, then
  re-do the "browstat status", the MB will be a different client.

  I am at a lost here. For all I can tell, WINS is working fine. DC1 says its
  the MB and WINS says its the DMB. If I perform "browstat status" from DC2, it
  said it was MB. I stopped the browser service on that machine, now it
  reconizes DC1 as MB. But both DC1 and DC2 can only see themselves and each
  other in the browse list.

  Server are fixed ip's and client used reserved IP's that are obtained from
  DHCP server (DC1). Client use NetBIOS over TCP/IP and are configured to use
  the WINS server (also DC1).

  So, Does anyone have any other suggestions???

  Thanks

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