Browsing Problem

[mcp6453]

A peer-to-peer network of Windows 2000 computers were joined to a new
Windows 2003 Server domain. There is a login script to map drives for
each computer. All machines use the same login script. The Network
Wizard was run the same on each machine to register the machine name in
Active Directory.

When Browsing through My Network Places, the shares are immediately
viewable. The same is true, of course, for Start | Run | Browse...
except that browse in not available on three of the machines. All
testing is done logged in as "support" with admin privileges. The
support account has admin privileges on the local machine.

I can Start | Run | \\server and see the shares, but they are never
visible when browsing. I found an article pointing to a possible key
missing in the registry, but the key is present. No error messages are
generated at any time.

Can someone tell me how to fix the problem?

 

[Jerold Schulman]

A peer-to-peer network of Windows 2000 computers were joined to a new
Windows 2003 Server domain. There is a login script to map drives for
each computer. All machines use the same login script. The Network
Wizard was run the same on each machine to register the machine name in
Active Directory.

When Browsing through My Network Places, the shares are immediately
viewable. The same is true, of course, for Start | Run | Browse...
except that browse in not available on three of the machines. All
testing is done logged in as "support" with admin privileges. The
support account has admin privileges on the local machine.

I can Start | Run | \\server and see the shares, but they are never
visible when browsing. I found an article pointing to a possible key
missing in the registry, but the key is present. No error messages are
generated at any time.

Can someone tell me how to fix the problem?

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