C
Cyrille
Hello,
I need help on a very weird problem :
Situation:
- one LAN : basic, no routers, no subnets. Mix of fixed IPs and DHCP,
but no overlap detected. NetBios over TCP/IP on all stations, nothing
else (no IPX/SPX, no NetBeui, ...).
- 16 workstations: mostly XP Home, 2 XP Pro, 1 Apple Powerbook under
MacOSX (Samba activated)
- Just installed : 1 HP Proliant HP-ML110_G2 (NAS), with WS2003
Storage Server Edition.
No browsing problem before NAS is installed.
After NAS is installed:
- "net view" on most stations returns a blank list, but
intermittently. Sometimes it works. UNC syntax is always functional
(can access every share via \\station\sharename). Problem observed on
both XP Pro and XP Home workstations.
- Business situation: IT support and management is provided by external
firm.
They say: NAS incompatible with XP Home workgroup,,and there are too
many stations to go on using a workgroup network (ie a PDC and upgrade
everyone in XP Pro)
I'm doing a little investigation on my own, just to be sure It's the
real problem.
So the questions are:
- what's the maximum numbers of peers for a Workgroup network ? I'm not
talking about the limit of 5/10 sessions for XP Home/Pro, but of the
practical limit of size for a workgroup before it becomes non-optional
to swith to a NT/ADS domain.
- browsing problems occured after the NAS was installed. But the doc
from HP does not indicate any contradiction with a Workgroup
environment. Does anyone know of similar problems with WS2003 Server
Storage Edition and Workgroup. I spent hours googling for it, but could
not find a clue.
- Should I check a Master Browser conflict, and if yes, how can I
detect it (nbtstat -a for all the stations) ?
I haven't yet checked with the PowerBook (with MacOS X Tiger), who
probably runs Samba. I will check his Samba config when I have the
opportunity.
- each station has Panda Antivirus Platinum 2005, with the firewall
activated. But since the problem is intermittent, can it be a firewall
problem ?
Details - screen copies :
- Domain XXX , Domain master browser is now NAS (nbtstat -a says so).
- browstat output:
---------------------------
When browsing works:
Status for domain XXX on transport \Device\NetBT_Tcpip_[...]
Browsing is active on domain.
Master browser name is: NAS
Could not connect to registry, error = 5 Unable to determine
build of browser master: 5
Unable to determine server information for browser master: 5
1 backup servers retrieved from master NAS
\\NAS
There are 17 servers in domain XXX on transport
\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_[...]
There are 1 domains in domain XXX on transport
\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_[...]
--------------------------
When things are wrong (net view displays an empty list) (taken from
another machine) :
Status for domain XXX on transport \Device\NetBT_Tcpip_[...]
Browsing is active on domain.
Master browser name is: NAS
Could not connect to registry, error = 5 Unable to determine
build of bro
wser master: 5
Unable to determine server information for browser master: 5
1 backup servers retrieved from master NAS
\\NAS
There are 0 servers in domain XXX on transport
\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_[...]
There are 0 domains in domain XXX on transport
\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_[...]
--------------------------
I need help on a very weird problem :
Situation:
- one LAN : basic, no routers, no subnets. Mix of fixed IPs and DHCP,
but no overlap detected. NetBios over TCP/IP on all stations, nothing
else (no IPX/SPX, no NetBeui, ...).
- 16 workstations: mostly XP Home, 2 XP Pro, 1 Apple Powerbook under
MacOSX (Samba activated)
- Just installed : 1 HP Proliant HP-ML110_G2 (NAS), with WS2003
Storage Server Edition.
No browsing problem before NAS is installed.
After NAS is installed:
- "net view" on most stations returns a blank list, but
intermittently. Sometimes it works. UNC syntax is always functional
(can access every share via \\station\sharename). Problem observed on
both XP Pro and XP Home workstations.
- Business situation: IT support and management is provided by external
firm.
They say: NAS incompatible with XP Home workgroup,,and there are too
many stations to go on using a workgroup network (ie a PDC and upgrade
everyone in XP Pro)
I'm doing a little investigation on my own, just to be sure It's the
real problem.
So the questions are:
- what's the maximum numbers of peers for a Workgroup network ? I'm not
talking about the limit of 5/10 sessions for XP Home/Pro, but of the
practical limit of size for a workgroup before it becomes non-optional
to swith to a NT/ADS domain.
- browsing problems occured after the NAS was installed. But the doc
from HP does not indicate any contradiction with a Workgroup
environment. Does anyone know of similar problems with WS2003 Server
Storage Edition and Workgroup. I spent hours googling for it, but could
not find a clue.
- Should I check a Master Browser conflict, and if yes, how can I
detect it (nbtstat -a for all the stations) ?
I haven't yet checked with the PowerBook (with MacOS X Tiger), who
probably runs Samba. I will check his Samba config when I have the
opportunity.
- each station has Panda Antivirus Platinum 2005, with the firewall
activated. But since the problem is intermittent, can it be a firewall
problem ?
Details - screen copies :
- Domain XXX , Domain master browser is now NAS (nbtstat -a says so).
- browstat output:
---------------------------
When browsing works:
Status for domain XXX on transport \Device\NetBT_Tcpip_[...]
Browsing is active on domain.
Master browser name is: NAS
Could not connect to registry, error = 5 Unable to determine
build of browser master: 5
Unable to determine server information for browser master: 5
1 backup servers retrieved from master NAS
\\NAS
There are 17 servers in domain XXX on transport
\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_[...]
There are 1 domains in domain XXX on transport
\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_[...]
--------------------------
When things are wrong (net view displays an empty list) (taken from
another machine) :
Status for domain XXX on transport \Device\NetBT_Tcpip_[...]
Browsing is active on domain.
Master browser name is: NAS
Could not connect to registry, error = 5 Unable to determine
build of bro
wser master: 5
Unable to determine server information for browser master: 5
1 backup servers retrieved from master NAS
\\NAS
There are 0 servers in domain XXX on transport
\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_[...]
There are 0 domains in domain XXX on transport
\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_[...]
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