Browsing A Windows 2000 Domain....

[Carl Elliott]

Our system was attacked last night with the common MIRC
hack.. All security policies were reset as is nature of
the trojan. I have succeeded in restoring most
settings. Users can log on to our Windows 2000 server
via Windows 2000 or XP clients to specific shared
folders. However, no one is able to browse the domain
via "My Network Places". If you directly input the
address of shared folders it takes you there, however,
just inputing the //server does nothing. In addition..
no one can connect to the shared printers on the server
that was affected..

Any ideas on how to restore browsing ability by users to
the domain?? Any help is appreciated.

As a side note, from the server itself the domain is
fully browsable so I imagine it is a network permission
that has not been reset. The local one apparently has
been..

Kind regards,

Carl Elliott

 

[Tim Rains [MSFT]]

Hi Carl. Thank-you for your post.

This is a good article that may help you troubleshoot NetBIOS browsing:

188305 Troubleshooting the Microsoft Computer Browser Service
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=188305

Also, I developed a tool that may help you determine where the failure is:

818092 Description of NetBIOS Browsing Console (Browcon.exe)
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=818092

820914 Support WebCast: Using the NetBIOS Browsing Console to Troubleshoot
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=820914

I hope this helps you.

Tim Rains
Product Support Services
Microsoft Corporation

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