I'll go ahead and disable the browser service on all the machines but one and see what results I get. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeff Steward To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 4:43 PM Subject: Re: Cant Browse workgroup
This thread brings back memories from the bad old days. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/188305 "Remember that name resolution among all browsers is critical and that the first thing to do is to establish a robust name resolution infrastructure with WINS. A lot of time can be wasted trying to track down browser issues, which are really caused by name resolution problems." <rest of reply killed since Ben Scott beat me to it> As Ben suggested, forcing a single master browser will solve the problem. In the setup you describe it is possible to get multiple master browsers and have all sorts of randomness with respect to network browsing. Yes, the browser election process looks good on paper, but it has been shown to fail horribly in the real world. -Jeff Steward On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Erik Goldoff <[email protected]> wrote: Not benign, but could be a critical notice considering your issue. Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: James Kerr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 4:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Cant Browse workgroup Its been a couplpe of different boxes since I started but currently its this jennifer-pc. I thought this warning was benign and something I could ignore but maybe not? Event ID 8021 Source BROWSER The browser was unable to retrieve a list of servers from the browser master \\JENNIFER-PC on the network \Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{C74196F3-019F-48AA-83A4-A6F508CE5DE8}. The data is the error code. ----- Original Message ----- From: Erik Goldoff To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 4:02 PM Subject: RE: Cant Browse workgroup OK, so ,…. Oops .. think I clicked send before reading the entire issue. If you cannot browse the workgroup probably a browser issue, do you have browmon or browstat to see who the master browser might be ? Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: James Kerr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 3:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Cant Browse workgroup Have a PC with a new installation of XP Pro, updated to the most recent Windows updates. Its on a peer to peer network with a mix of XP, Vista home and business and 7. I can ping other computers by their name, I can put \\computername and see the shares on the other PCs but what I can do is click on "view workgroup computers", I just get an error stating " Workgroup is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions. The network path was not found". NetBIOS over TCP is enabled File sharing and client for microsoft networks are checked Microsoft client is using Windows Locator Simple file sharing is disabled (still had the problem when it was.) There are no other networking protocols enabled, just tcp/ip. Anyone have any ideas because I'm about out of them and I've been doing some serious googling. I may just do another bare metal install if I can't get this thing going soon. James ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
