Re: Unable to see domain servers/pcs

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From: Wes (wes.kjc_at_online.ntlworld.com)
Date: 09/13/04 

Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:35:18 +0100

Hi Dave,

Stop and disable the Computer Browser service on all clients PC's and see if
that makes any difference. Only the server needs to have it enabled and set
to Automatic.

Were you able to connect using IP and FQDN?

Is this connected to an earlier post involving a Linksys WRV54g Wireless
router? I got eight of the things for a main office and 7 home workers and
had to send all of them back because they were extremely unreliable and kept
needed rebooting. As one of them was being used as a switch for the SBS LAN
it was causing me no end of grief.

Kind regards,

Wes

"DaveIM" <DaveIM@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:55D306C9-703B-4C8A-BC00-92EFAB6E72D4@microsoft.com...
> es,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> Netbios over TCP is enabled on both server and client. I am however
> getting
> master browser elections from the clients. I've applied a register change
> to
> set ismasterbrowser to 'true' on the server. This has stopped elections on
> all but two of the PC's, but I still cant browse on the PC's that have not
> forced ellections.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave
>
> "Wes" wrote:
>
>> Hi Dave,
>>
>> Have you disabled NETBIOS over TCP/IP on your network? If so, you will
>> not
>> see anything when you "browse" the network using My Network Places or
>> Explorer. Also, check you event logs for Browser errors as some clients
>> will force a browser election and take the role from your server (where
>> it
>> should be).
>>
>> Provided you are using WINS and have NETBIOS over TCP/IP enabled you
>> should
>> be able to map the share using \\servername\sharename. You should always
>> be
>> able to use \\ipaddress\sharename and if DNS is working properly, you can
>> use \\FQDN\sharename.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Wes
>>
>>
>> "DaveIM" <DaveIM@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:5A45F097-9D32-44ED-A299-D01E2C23B96E@microsoft.com...
>> > When trying to map to a shared drive through explorer in w2k selecting
>> > the
>> > domain does not reveal any servers or PC's that belong to it,
>> > preventing
>> > the
>> > mapping of a share. It is possible to map the share by explicitly
>> > mapping
>> > the
>> > drive i.e. \\servername\directoryname
>> >
>> > Any ideas?
>> >
>> > It feels like a DNS problem but both forward and reverse lookup zones
>> > look
>> > ok. On an IPconfig /all the server, domain, gateway, subnet mask, etc
>> > are
>> > all
>> > populated correctly.
>>
>>
>>

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