After letting 336 sit overnight, it now browses just fine. Browstat shows it
thinks 335 is the master and 336 is the backup. At this moment it appears
removing it from the domain fixed the browsing issue
I will now try rejoining it to the domain and seeing what happens.
"Bruce Musgrove" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Update:
> If I remove 335 and 336 from the domain and make them part of their own
> workgroup, then 335 (win2k server) can browse the network just fine,
> including the new workgroup and the old domain it used to be a member of.
>
> 336 (the windows 2003 server) see's the same browse list as 335, can
browse
> its own workgroup just fine, can browse all of the same workgroups as 335,
> but cannot browse the old domain. I receive the error "<domin name>
> is not accessible. You might not have permissions to use this device.
> Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access
> permissions. The device is not connected"
>
>
> "Bruce Musgrove" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Setup:
> >
> > 1 - Win2k server, Domain controller
> > 2 - Win2k, BDC
> > 335 - Win2k member server
> > 336 - Win 2003 member server
> > 342 - WinXpSp1 domain member
> >
> > All servers are multihomed, BUT the second card is disabled. Browsing
has
> > worked fine in the past. The only significant thing I have done is
> upgrade
> > 336 to windows 2003 about 4 months ago. It was a Win2k member server.
> > Install was done from a clean harddrive
> > I can verify the problem has been happening for 1 month. The problem
first
> > cropped on the WIn2003 server and then went to 2 and 335
> >
> > 2, 335 and 336 cannot browse the network. Selecting ENTIRE NETWORK gives
> you
> > only our domain and not all of the domains on our network. Selecting my
> > domain gives me the error "The list of servers for this workgroup is not
> > currently available"
> > Using browstat status on any of these machines gives
> > "Status for domain NUAPRIMARY on transport \Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{9.....
> > Browsing is NOT active on domain. Status : 6118
> > Master browser name is held by: 1
> > Master browser is running build 2195
> >
> >
> > Server 1 (PDC and therefore the Master browser?) works fine for browsing
> >
> > 342, the XP wksta, works fine BUT it thinks 335 is the master browser .
> If
> > I do a browstat elect, it then thinks 2 is the master browser. Each time
I
> > do this it flops between 335 and 2. Each time still is able to browse
> and
> > 2, 335, and 336 continue to give the errors above.
> >
> > I installed a my own wins server and pointed all of them to it (instead
> of
> > using the school's). 1 correctly registered itself as the master
browser,
> > But the same problems occurred wit the other 4
> >
> > NetBIOS over TCPIP is turned on. All systems have been scanned for
virus's
> >
> >
>
>
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