Computer Browsing Service - anyone want to contribute for a good conversation?
- From: "GreenGoblin" <none@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 18:54:44 -0500
Hi,
I have read many posts on this subject recently. I am in the same dilemma's
as many other people on here and I have read all the recent posts but there
hasn't been a good solution offered.
I can't find a clear answer on this so maybe if everyone sticks to one post
we can all work it out? Basically I have 15 vlan's routed with cisco
equipment and run mostly on hp/cisco switches. This is a 2003 domain with 3
sites and 2 dc's at each location. All dc's are GC's as well. 1 location
is coming down soon so let's just work with 2 sites. We have WINS running
on 2 dc's at one location and then at another location on 2 different
servers, 1 of which is a dc and 1 that is not. I don't replicate WINS to
the other location as it is in another country and we don't see a need to
browse through sites or that it is even needed to replicate, is that wrong?
Therefore let's just work with a single site and that is my trouble. So I
have 2 dc's with all the FSMO roles on one of them. They are both on
different subnets. I have about 140 clients. I am trying to find out how
to control the browsing and how to set the reg key "isdomainmaster" or if I
set that manually at all. I would like to know how most people are handling
this issue where xp clients are just filling up the event logs with errors
about machines promoting themselves. This seems to be quite a common issue
and I haven't read a good response yet on how to really fix this? I know it
is a "chatty" service but there must be a solution. Some of you MVP's
recommend that people shut off the browser service while others are quite
opposed to that.
I have used browstat and browmon but the only thing I see is that multiple
member servers or clients are promoting themselves and I don't know why they
can't reach the DMB anyway. Is it in fact correct that the browser service
will not traverse a router? If that is true then doesn't the information
get replicated to the DMB on one subnet via WINS? My dc/dns/wins server 1
is on a .60 subnet. My dc/dns/wins server 2 is on a .70 subnet. Server 2
should send it's info over to server 1 when wins replicates right? So why
is my network neighborhood not updating? Why are clients promoting
themselves instead of going to the master browser - server 2on the .70
subnet or a backup server? Don't server OS' take precedence for promotion?
Thanks
your friendly neighborhood Goblin.
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