Re: Brow-beaten by browsing

There is a list of list of crieteras for each machine on the
network and the DCs are definately higher on the list:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/102878/en-us

My point is that you have to have at least 1 machine maintaining
the browse list in each subnet. You can control this by turning
of the computer browse list on all other machines. You don't want
NetBIOS broadcasting or forwarding on the routers e.g., netBIOS
helper applications running which will forward the SMB requests out
of the subnet like you are trying acheive. Make 1 machine in each
subnet the master. Another way to do this is leave the computer
browser service on all machines and edit the IsDomainMaster on
those machines to yes. The following explains the process:
HKLM \SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Browser\Parameters\IsDomainMaster .
IsDomainMaster parameter information: . When set to 1, this parameter
provides a priority boost to increase its likely hood of winning a master
browser election. It does not allow the browse server to become the domain
master browser. This value is a boolean value and can be any of the
following: Yes/No, True/False, or 1/0.

. MaintainServerList: . When set to NO, the server is not a browse
server.
. When set to YES, the server becomes a browse server.
. When set to AUTO, the server becomes a browse master if the
master browser asks it do so.



Good luck.
"Jeff the Network Guy" <MartiniMadness@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:
I guess what this all comes down to is what is the "best practice" for
browsing/ network bandwidth usage when dealing with a situation where all
my servers are in one subnet and all of my PCs are in five other subnets.
All subnets are connected via fiber.
In my situation, my client is complaining primarily about the lack of
control/inconsistency with regards to browse list maintenance, and the
fact that any crappy PC can be saddled with the duty of handling out
browse lists to all of its bretheren at any moment. It would seem that
this is a task that should belong to servers, much like every other
administrative network task (DHCP, WINS, DNS, etc..). It just seems like
I am missing something here with regards to how things "should be done".
It is that, or I just discovered one of the ugliest warts in all of
Windows-based networks.



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