Re: Browsing problem
From: Karl Middleton (kmiddlet_at_icrystal.dot.com.dot.au)
Date: 02/10/04
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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 23:47:59 +1100
Solved it and you will never guess where!
Folder redirection is active on this server. Offline synchronisation is also
used on other shared folders. There was a need to relocate the user and data
directories to another drive.
One of the shares was not recreated on the new drive. However the users
workstations were still looking for it.
When they could not find it, the little system tray icon came up saying the
server was not available and folders were now working offline. That is fine
and dandy EXCEPT the operating system then assumes that the server is not
there and won't browse it! And because the server is the browse master, you
can't browse anything else on the network either.
Recreating the share immediately solved the problem. The workstations that
worked prior to the disappearance of the share were not synchronising it
offline.
It looks like the synchronisation software is capable of telling the
operating system something that is not true: IE the network isn't there even
though it is.
Do Microsoft have anything to say about this behaviour? I could not find any
reference anywhere to this exact problem.
"Karl Middleton" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:u%230DAqp7DHA.632@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> A small customer with an SBS2003 Standard network has a browsing problem.
2
> of the 4 PCs can't browse the network getting error messages saying that
> they may not have permission to perform this action. All PCs are running
> WinXP Pro. SBS set up via the wizards. Packet signing for the clients and
> servers turned off (as per www.smallbizserver.net) to solve the slow save
> problem.
>
> If we enter the FQDN IE: \\servername.domain.local it works and the shared
> drives, etc, can be browsed. Using a standard UNC of \\servername does
not.
>
> One of the two PCs that is working had the problem but it miraculously
> cleared itself after a couple of reboots and has been OK ever since.
>
> I have trawled through the DHCP scope settings for WINS addresses, cleared
> the WINS database, cleared the machines from DHCP and DNS but still no
joy.
> I think I am now at the going cross-eyed stage.
>
> What might cause this and where should I look?
>
> Thanks
> karl from oz
>
>
>
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