Ive been telling the guy forever to get a server for less then 2 grand, so
at the very least he can centralize his data and back it up. Practically all
his printers have Ethernet ports and could be managed by the server, login
scripts for shares etc etc, the list goes on and I know I'm preaching the
choir here just getting frustrated dealing with his mess.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Scott" <[email protected]>
To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 5:02 PM
Subject: Re: Cant Browse workgroup
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Jeff Steward <[email protected]> wrote:
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."
He mentioned he can ping the other computers by name, which suggests
it probabbly isn't a name resolution issue.
Also, AFAIK, you can't run a WINS server on Windows unless you have
one of the "Server" flavors of Windows, and he doesn't. If he had a
Windows Server it would automatically get preferential treatment in
browser elections, so he prolly wouldn't be dealing with browser wars
in the first place.
(Linux/Samba can also act as a WINS server. You also get explict
control over all the NetBIOS name resolution and browse and election
parameters, which can come in handy.)
-- Ben
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