Browser 8032 Event ID

[Guest]

I saw some posts related to this error, but none of them apply to my
situation. I am seeing many anomolies in my network, and think this might be
part of the disconnects we're experiencing.

Unfortunately due to the limitations of instruments I have on my network, I
have to support several older computers and old operating systems. Right now
I've got 3 widows 98 machines that consistently get disconnected from the
network. The server on the network where they're trying to acquire their
data on is getting Browser 8032 errors every 2 hours. Note that this server
is NOT a domain controller.

I have 2 domain controllers both on W2K SP4 and the secondary domain
controller also has these errors. I did a browstat on the DC that's
experiencing these errors and am getting several itterations of this:

Status for domain AKAN on transport
\Device\Nbf_NdisWanNbfOut{B7B88830-0EE0-4390
-A257-F4D17EC61D97}
Browsing is NOT active on domain.
Master name cannot be determined from GetAdapterStatus.

Then I'm getting these other entries that are really concerning me:

Status for domain AKAN on transport
\Device\Nbf_{4BB4C6B7-AA9C-4348-A76D-56B20B3
5A177}
Browsing is active on domain.
Master browser name is: PETRA
Master browser is running build 2195
2 backup servers retrieved from master PETRA
\\PETRA
\\ICPMS2
There are 4 servers in domain AKAN on transport
\Device\Nbf_{4BB4C6B7-AA9C-4
348-A76D-56B20B35A177}
There are 1 domains in domain AKAN on transport
\Device\Nbf_{4BB4C6B7-AA9C-4
348-A76D-56B20B35A177}


Status for domain AKAN on transport
\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{4BB4C6B7-AA9C-4348-A76D
-56B20B35A177}
Browsing is active on domain.
Master name cannot be determined from GetAdapterStatus. Using \\ATHENA
Could not connect to registry, error = 53 Unable to determine build
of br
owser master: 53
Unable to determine server information for browser master: 53
1 backup servers retrieved from master ATHENA
\\ATHENA
Unable to retrieve server list from ATHENA: 53

Athena is the PDC, and Petra is the SDC. Other servers listed aren't really
servers at all.

So what is my next course of action to try and remedy this problem?

 

[Newbie Coder]

Penny,

Error 53 = 'network path cannot be found' & the GetAdapterStatus is a
function that is trying to query your network card, but cannot because
something has disconnected it

Here are a list of articles to help with the Master Browser error:

http://search.microsoft.com/results.aspx?mkt=en-US&form=MSHOME&setlang=en-US&q=Browser+8032

One of the article mentions that the master browser has tried to connect 5
times & will restart again after 1 hour

 

[John John]

The Master Browser role should *solely* belong to the PDC.

John

 

[John John]

PS. Also make sure that NetBIOS over TCP/IP is enabled on the PDC.

John