RE: can't browse domain

thanks Tom,
thanks for the suggestion, here's my results.
i stopped and started the browser service, didn't have to disable the
firewall service as it already was, restarted the server, same problem
worked my way through that article:
the pdc is the master browser, and is on the same network segment as the
misbehaving server. i can map network between the misbehaving server, the pdc
and another computer.
from step 2.
the master browser doesn't have the server's name in it's list. forcing an
announcement from another computer, and doing an announcement from the
console of the missing server's console had no effect. the announce from the
console said: "toggling local server status bits to 20000 and then to 20000."
but it still didn't appear in the list.
from step 3.
the master browser is the pdc, so running browstat getpdc.... just returned
the name of the pdc, it worked from another pc, interestingly when run from
the missing server it said: "unable to get PDC: access is denied"
from step 6.
the browstat locallist command returned no entries, but when i did the
browstat view... |findstr /i bbr it returned a list of backup browsers, none
of which have the missing server in their list

this server is one of our exchange servers, so removing it and re-adding it
to the domain will be a problem i think
regards
andrew perry


"Tom Che [MSFT]" wrote:

> Hi Pez,
>
> Thanks for posting here. Also thanks for Todd and Michael's kindly replies.
>
> Based on my experience, you may test the following steps for this issue:
>
> 1. Stop and re-start Computer Browser service with services.msc or use:
> net stop browser
> net start browser
> 2. Disable Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) service with
> services.msc.
> 3. Restart the server.
> 4. If the issue persists after above steps, please refer to the following
> KB article for further troubleshooting:
>
> Troubleshooting the Microsoft Computer Browser Service
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/188305/
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Have a nice day!
>
> Sincerely,
> Tom Che
> Microsoft Online Partner Support
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> >a windows 2003 server in my domain has stopped being able to browse the
> >network.
> >
> >if i click on "my network places", then "entire network" then double click
> >on our domain name, i get an error
> >
> >---------
> >microsoft windows network
> >domain_name is not accessible. you might not have permission to use this
> >network resource. contact the administrator of this server to find out if
> you
> >have access permissions.
> >
> >the list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available
> >----------
> >
> >
> >at the command prompt if i do "net view"
> >then:
> >-----------
> >system error 6118 has occurred.
> >
> >the list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available
> >-----------
> >
> >browstat status
> >----------
> >status for domain domain_name on transport
> >\Device\NetBT_Tcpip{45ED36FE-FC77-46EB-8B3A-D5F7E47911E0}
> >browsing is NOT active on domain. statsus: 6118
> >master name cannot be determined from GetAdapterStatsus
> >----------
> >
> >it was working when i originally set it up, and it's still part of the
> >domain, but as it doesn't appear when i do a "net view" from another
> computer
> >in the domain then i can't setup my backup software to back it up
> >
> >any help would be appreciated
> >regards
> >andrew
> >
>
>
.

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