browser service

[Gabor Szemeredy]

Hello friends!
We have 3 subnets in our network.
192.168.42.xxx
192.168.52.xxx
192.168.62.xxx
Routing is Ok , so I can ping the workstation
on every segment from any other workstation.
Active directory is not activated.
On the windows 2003 server ( on the segment 62)
is IsDomainMaster in the registry set as True
hoping that it will become the domain master browser collecting browser
lists from master
browsers on the other segments.
We are still viewing only the workstations on the segment we are on.
Is it possible to set up the whole network to see all workstations on all
segments , or it is impossible without active directory?
Thanks

 

[John Wunderlich]

Hello friends!
We have 3 subnets in our network.
192.168.42.xxx
192.168.52.xxx
192.168.62.xxx
Routing is Ok , so I can ping the workstation
on every segment from any other workstation.
Active directory is not activated.
On the windows 2003 server ( on the segment 62)
is IsDomainMaster in the registry set as True
hoping that it will become the domain master browser collecting
browser lists from master
browsers on the other segments.
We are still viewing only the workstations on the segment we are
on. Is it possible to set up the whole network to see all
workstations on all segments , or it is impossible without active
directory? Thanks

By design, Windows Networking does not span subnets.
To do this, you have two basic options:
1) Add all hosts to the "lmhosts" file
(usually c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\lmhosts)
2) Use a WINS Server

For more info:
"MS Windows NT Server 4.0 - WINS Architecture and Capacity Planning"
<http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/winntas/plan/winswp.mspx>

HTH,
John

 

[Phillip Windell]

A Master Browser is only the Master Browser of the subnet it "lives" in.
Without a Domain there is no Domain Master Browser to combine the "browse lists"
from the subnet Master Browsers. The Domain Master Browser will always be the
DC with the "PDC Role" in the event there are more than one DC, it is the same
thing for the Domain Time Source.


--
Phillip Windell
www.wandtv.com

The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft, or
anyone else associated with me, including my cats.