Re: Browse List Inconsistent

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Thanks for the quick reply, Herb.

Browstat indicates that our Browse Master is the same server (FL-SRV01) as
run from all of the servers in our LAN. Running NBTSTAT -n on FL-SRV01 shows
the 1b entry associated with our domain name, not the PDC -- is this proper?
WINS Server is a consistent DHCP option in all of our subnets -- I didn't
check to see if any PCs have a fixed ip yet (but it's on my list). We do
have 9 subnets in our WAN.

Bob

"Herb Martin" wrote:

> "Bob Biegon" <BobBiegon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:A57E3B71-F332-48B7-BF1D-E7BEC1CB2007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > We have a Windows 2000 Native Active Directory domain that is having
> > intermittent browsing problems.
>
> Native or other domain modes are irrelevant.
>
> > Browsing communication (for lack of the
> > right term) is critical because Veritas Backup Exec uses it to communicate
> > between our backup server and our Exchange 2000 Server during Mailbox
> > backups. We find (estimate) that our browse list (net view) drops to a
> small
> > fraction of the total PCs at least once an hour, alternately displaying
> all
> > the PCs properly. On our master browser (PDC), single NIC, we don't even
> see
> > it's own presence in the list.
>
> It's almost certainly a NetBIOS problem as you seem
> to have surmised.
>
> Do you have multiple subnets? If so it is most likely a
> WINS server configuration problem.
>
> Either failure to replicate the WINS servers if you have
> more than one or perhaps (maybe most likely) failure
> to list the correct WINS server address on EVERY CLIENT
> NIC -- this includes the DC and other "server" NICs.
>
> > We've run nbtstat, netdiag but don't see problems at those times when the
> > list displays properly.
>
> BrowStat from support tools might be more useful.
>
>
>
>
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