Navid
04-11-2002, 11:38 PM
Recently I noticed that we can only find the computers that are in the same subnet in the network neighborhood. Does anyone know how to fix this?
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shiphter
04-15-2002, 04:18 PM
I'll assume that you're on Windows 2000 AD.
First, verify that you have WINS resolution across the subnets, this is the most common problem.
Second check out this QArticle for troubleshooting (Q188305), it helps in determining if you're getting connectivity between the the Domain Master browser (your PDC) and the various Master Browsers on the other subnets. Mainly, I use "browstat view 1 \pdcname | findstr /i mbr " to determine if the PDC is seeing a master browser for each subnet. If you are missing master browsers on some of your subnets, check to see if you have any 8003 errors on server in that subnet...refer to (Q135464 & Q190930). You will need to stop UDP broadcasts across your subnets.
Lastly, if you have a master browser for each subnet and the passage of browser information is being passed from subnet master browser to domain master browser and vice versa for all subnet but one or two.....force the subnet master browser to a different system. (I've seen some systems just won't work, don't know why, must be voodoo). Refer to exerpt below for registry entries:
(1) MaintainServerList is located at
HKLMSytemCurrentControlSetServicesBrowserParameter s.
There are three settings: no ( can not be a browser ), yes
( very detailed, basically this would be the favored child
in a tie...if it got that far...for example, if two WINNT
Servers were equal as far as everyting to that point
goes...the one with this registry entry would win the
tie...), and auto ( will act as browser if asked by Master
Browser ). NT Workstations have it set to NO and NT
Servers have it set to YES by default.
(2)IsDomainMasterBrowser, which is located in the same
location as the one in (1)...two possibilites...yes or
no. The default is NO for all computers...if this key is
set to YES there are two things to consider: the first is
that this machine will have an advantage in an election
and the second is that when this machine boots up it will
always force an election....
~~shiphter
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Navid at 4/12/2002 12:38:19 AM
Recently I noticed that we can only find the computers that are in the same subnet in the network neighborhood. Does anyone know how to fix this?
First, verify that you have WINS resolution across the subnets, this is the most common problem.
Second check out this QArticle for troubleshooting (Q188305), it helps in determining if you're getting connectivity between the the Domain Master browser (your PDC) and the various Master Browsers on the other subnets. Mainly, I use "browstat view 1 \pdcname | findstr /i mbr " to determine if the PDC is seeing a master browser for each subnet. If you are missing master browsers on some of your subnets, check to see if you have any 8003 errors on server in that subnet...refer to (Q135464 & Q190930). You will need to stop UDP broadcasts across your subnets.
Lastly, if you have a master browser for each subnet and the passage of browser information is being passed from subnet master browser to domain master browser and vice versa for all subnet but one or two.....force the subnet master browser to a different system. (I've seen some systems just won't work, don't know why, must be voodoo). Refer to exerpt below for registry entries:
(1) MaintainServerList is located at
HKLMSytemCurrentControlSetServicesBrowserParameter s.
There are three settings: no ( can not be a browser ), yes
( very detailed, basically this would be the favored child
in a tie...if it got that far...for example, if two WINNT
Servers were equal as far as everyting to that point
goes...the one with this registry entry would win the
tie...), and auto ( will act as browser if asked by Master
Browser ). NT Workstations have it set to NO and NT
Servers have it set to YES by default.
(2)IsDomainMasterBrowser, which is located in the same
location as the one in (1)...two possibilites...yes or
no. The default is NO for all computers...if this key is
set to YES there are two things to consider: the first is
that this machine will have an advantage in an election
and the second is that when this machine boots up it will
always force an election....
~~shiphter
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Navid at 4/12/2002 12:38:19 AM
Recently I noticed that we can only find the computers that are in the same subnet in the network neighborhood. Does anyone know how to fix this?
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