Re: Brow-beaten by browsing

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Some would argue that disabling the service on all machine or
preventing them from maintaining the browse list (same thing)
is not a good idea due to network overhead.. Here is how it
works basically:

Each subnet will have 1 subnet master browser (SMB) responsible
for gathering the local list and passing it back to the domain master
browser (DMB) as well as passing the merged list from the DMB
back to the clients on its subnet who request the list. The DMB is
responsible for gathering the lists from all SMBs as well as querying
WINS for all domain name 1b entries to find other DMBS to add
the list. It will merge the entire list and pass back to all SMBs.
The DMB, by default, will be the SMB for its local endpoint.

Most of the time when a client doesn't show up in the list it either
is not registering with the same SMB as the rest of the computers,
cannot find the SMB, or is blocking NetBIOS which is a necessary
part of the browse process.




"Jeff the Network Guy" <MartiniMadness@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:
Thankfully I have a good WINS hierarchy setup. I guess what I do not
really understand is what will happen when a PC goes to browse the network
if there is no Master Browser in its subnet? Keep in mind I am planning
on disabling all PCs capability of being a master browser or forcing an
election, so that only my servers (which are not in the same subnet as the
PCs) are master browsers.


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