My workstation keep selecting them selves as masterbrowsers
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Last response: in Windows 2000/NT
shaun
September 1, 2004 9:24:56 AM
Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsnt.domain (More info?)
I have one NT4 PDC and 2 BDC's. My workstations keep on
selecting them selves as master browsers. After a while
certain of my servers lose connection and I have to
disjoin and re-join them to the domain. How do I force my
PDC to stay the master browser.
I have one NT4 PDC and 2 BDC's. My workstations keep on
selecting them selves as master browsers. After a while
certain of my servers lose connection and I have to
disjoin and re-join them to the domain. How do I force my
PDC to stay the master browser.
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Anonymous
September 1, 2004 1:31:39 PM
Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsnt.domain (More info?)
The PDC will always be the DMB (domain master browser)
you can't change it. The PDC will also act as the SMB or
segment master browser for its given endpoint. In a subnetted
environment each subnet will have 1 SMB to gather the local
list and pass back to the DMB. The DMB will merge the
entire list and pass back to the SMB along with all other DMBs
who request it. Having said all of that, assuming you have a single
subnet the workstations are failing to find the SMB for one reason
or another which is why you are seeing browse elections from the
workstations. Do you see browse elections on the BDC as well?
If the clients are W2k you may want to disable the computer
browser service to prevent them from acting as the master browser.
They will still register with the local SMB to make their presence
known on the network.
"Shaun" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:
> I have one NT4 PDC and 2 BDC's. My workstations keep on
> selecting them selves as master browsers. After a while
> certain of my servers lose connection and I have to
> disjoin and re-join them to the domain. How do I force my
> PDC to stay the master browser.
The PDC will always be the DMB (domain master browser)
you can't change it. The PDC will also act as the SMB or
segment master browser for its given endpoint. In a subnetted
environment each subnet will have 1 SMB to gather the local
list and pass back to the DMB. The DMB will merge the
entire list and pass back to the SMB along with all other DMBs
who request it. Having said all of that, assuming you have a single
subnet the workstations are failing to find the SMB for one reason
or another which is why you are seeing browse elections from the
workstations. Do you see browse elections on the BDC as well?
If the clients are W2k you may want to disable the computer
browser service to prevent them from acting as the master browser.
They will still register with the local SMB to make their presence
known on the network.
"Shaun" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:
> I have one NT4 PDC and 2 BDC's. My workstations keep on
> selecting them selves as master browsers. After a while
> certain of my servers lose connection and I have to
> disjoin and re-join them to the domain. How do I force my
> PDC to stay the master browser.
Anonymous
September 2, 2004 4:59:26 AM
Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsnt.domain (More info?)
I have 2 differnt subnets. My PDC and BDC on each subnet
get exactly the same event ID 8003 with dicription The
master browser has received a server announcement from the
computer computername that believes that it is the master
browser for the domain on transport NetBT_E100B1. The
master browser is stopping or an election is being forced.
I have about 600 users on each site. I will not be able to
go to each workstation and disable the master browser. Is
there another way of doing this???
>-----Original Message-----
>I have one NT4 PDC and 2 BDC's. My workstations keep on
>selecting them selves as master browsers. After a while
>certain of my servers lose connection and I have to
>disjoin and re-join them to the domain. How do I force my
>PDC to stay the master browser.
>.
>
I have 2 differnt subnets. My PDC and BDC on each subnet
get exactly the same event ID 8003 with dicription The
master browser has received a server announcement from the
computer computername that believes that it is the master
browser for the domain on transport NetBT_E100B1. The
master browser is stopping or an election is being forced.
I have about 600 users on each site. I will not be able to
go to each workstation and disable the master browser. Is
there another way of doing this???
>-----Original Message-----
>I have one NT4 PDC and 2 BDC's. My workstations keep on
>selecting them selves as master browsers. After a while
>certain of my servers lose connection and I have to
>disjoin and re-join them to the domain. How do I force my
>PDC to stay the master browser.
>.
>
Anonymous
September 2, 2004 2:27:33 PM
Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsnt.domain (More info?)
A common cause of this error is the router forwarding
broadcast packets to the remote subnet. I would start
by verifying the router isn't using the broadcast forwarding
feature. You can use Netmon to capture the network
packets an see if the destination of the "host name
announcements" are being forwarded to the remote subnet.
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:
> I have 2 differnt subnets. My PDC and BDC on each subnet
> get exactly the same event ID 8003 with dicription The
> master browser has received a server announcement from the
> computer computername that believes that it is the master
> browser for the domain on transport NetBT_E100B1. The
> master browser is stopping or an election is being forced.
> I have about 600 users on each site. I will not be able to
> go to each workstation and disable the master browser. Is
> there another way of doing this???
A common cause of this error is the router forwarding
broadcast packets to the remote subnet. I would start
by verifying the router isn't using the broadcast forwarding
feature. You can use Netmon to capture the network
packets an see if the destination of the "host name
announcements" are being forwarded to the remote subnet.
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:
> I have 2 differnt subnets. My PDC and BDC on each subnet
> get exactly the same event ID 8003 with dicription The
> master browser has received a server announcement from the
> computer computername that believes that it is the master
> browser for the domain on transport NetBT_E100B1. The
> master browser is stopping or an election is being forced.
> I have about 600 users on each site. I will not be able to
> go to each workstation and disable the master browser. Is
> there another way of doing this???
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