Re: List of servers in this workgroup is currently not available.

Thanks,

Wow, what an article! I think I did post ipconfig /all for both server and
one of the clients. I think WINS is enabled as it is shown in both (basically
the server IP).

I did stop the service for computer browser on the client I showed. It
didn't solve the problem. But, is it a good idea anyway? Will it keep coming
back on? Maybe not if I make it manual? I can do group policy, but I am not
sure exactly how to do that for a specific service.

The only thing I can possibly think of that happened close to the event is
the power went out, and most of the PCs (but not this one I am on) shut off.
(I have since purchased rather expensvie UPS/AVRs -- I just am on a tight
budget). But, I don't know if that would cause a quick election. This
election stuff is rather new to me. Thanks.

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

Bert <Bert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
OK, this is strange. I have not had an issue connecting to the domain
or server in a year of using this server and network. I can ping the
server with no problem. All programs can access the databases on the
server. When I click on My Network Places, I can see and open all of
the shared folders.

What I cannot do is the following: I click on "Entire Network." I
then click on "Microsoft Windows Network." This opens but takes about
ten seconds rather than immediately opening. This then brings up the
domain, "riverviewpedia." I have always been able to click on the
domain name, which then lists all of the computers on the network
including the server. But, now when I click on "riverviewpediat," it
pauses for about 15 seconds, before not opening and giving the
following error message:

Riverviewpediat is not accessible. You might not have permission to
view this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server
to find out if you have access permissions. The list of servers for
this workgroup is not currently available.

Now, what I find weird is I have a shortcut of the server icon that
resides under the domain icon along with the other computers on the
domain. Clicking on the server icon reveals all of the shared folders
on the server. So, here I can't even get to this point, but I have a
shortcut to the server icon and it works fine.

This occurs from all of the clients. An ipconfig /all shows that each
computer seems to have all of the correct settings and are connected
to the domain and not the workgroup.

I have researched this a bit, and I keep finding suggestions about a
master browser. I did restart all of the PCs, but my guess is the
server is the master browser.

Thanks.

Got WINS? Everyone registered in WINS, including the server?

Stop and disable the computer browser on all workstations - they don't need
it running and it will cause regular master browser elections on its own.
Simplest way to stop that is by disabling the service - use group policy.

You can check out browmon/browstat -
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windowsnt/4/server/reskit/en-us/net/chptr3.mspx

As the other reply suggested, an unedited ipconfig /all from the server & a
problem client might also be of some use.





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