cleaning up my network places

[Guest]

I have a 5 windows xp home and professional computers that have multiple
entries that show up when I look at my network places. I know from what I
have read in the web and in this news group that the information displayed in
my network places comes from the master browser. I have also used browstat
to see the status of my network and everything is okay.

I just want to know how to remove the enteries that are not working any
more. I have disconnected the shared network connections on the windows xp
computers that are not available anymore, but I would like to know if I can
just delete the enteries from the master browser in my network places if they
are not working any more or if it is even possible to remove the enteries
from the my network places (and be able to control what is seen here). I
have 77 shared folders, some of which don't exist as some computers have been
re-named and what not and thus incorrect entries exist. Thus what is the
best way to clean up this mess and keep it from coming back?

Edward Letendre

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

I have a 5 windows xp home and professional computers that have multiple
entries that show up when I look at my network places. I know from what I
have read in the web and in this news group that the information displayed in
my network places comes from the master browser. I have also used browstat
to see the status of my network and everything is okay.

I just want to know how to remove the enteries that are not working any
more. I have disconnected the shared network connections on the windows xp
computers that are not available anymore, but I would like to know if I can
just delete the enteries from the master browser in my network places if they
are not working any more or if it is even possible to remove the enteries
from the my network places (and be able to control what is seen here). I
have 77 shared folders, some of which don't exist as some computers have been
re-named and what not and thus incorrect entries exist. Thus what is the
best way to clean up this mess and keep it from coming back?

Edward Letendre

Each computer maintains its own list of network places. There's no
single place you can go to remove entries from all of the computers
simultaneously.

To remove multiple entries from My Network Places on a particular
computer, highlight them all at once (Ctrl-click), right-click one of
the highlighted entries, and click Delete..
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Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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[Guest]

I have the problem of a computer that can't see other computers on the
network. I looking at the same type of problem as originally posted.
Currently the computer that apparently can't see any other computer, still
remembers what it used to see so I don't exactly know what it can see. If I
delete all the entries, how soon will it be before I see what the computer
really sees on the network.

I can ping other computers and initially would suspect that Norton Internet
Security is the problem of other computers really that are not present in
places like Windows Explorer. However, I can't figure what the computer is
really seeing.

 

[Robert L [MVP - Networking]]

Quoted from http://www.ChicagoTech.net

The master browser is responsible for collecting host or server announcements, which are sent as datagrams every 12 minutes by each server on the network segment of the master browser.

If it takes more than 20 minutes, I would check the master browser status.

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
I have the problem of a computer that can't see other computers on the
network. I looking at the same type of problem as originally posted.
Currently the computer that apparently can't see any other computer, still
remembers what it used to see so I don't exactly know what it can see. If I
delete all the entries, how soon will it be before I see what the computer
really sees on the network.

I can ping other computers and initially would suspect that Norton Internet
Security is the problem of other computers really that are not present in
places like Windows Explorer. However, I can't figure what the computer is
really seeing.

 

[Guest]

An additional post that includes the check in Notify me of replies.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the reply.

I not at the network where the problem occurred.

I did a search on checking master browser and http://www.howtonetworking.com
stated BROWSTAT.EXE did the checking.

I did a search on BROWSTAT.EXE and the Microsoft web apge stated that
Windows XP SP2 Support tools had browstat.exe. I downloaded and installed but
found no browstat.exe listed when I opened the support tools help . I tried
to redo the the install but the software required unistall. I selected
uninstall. I decided since I was just reinstalling to not reboot until after
the reinstall with complete box checked. Then I rebooted. Still no browstat
in support tools help.

I decided maybe browstat.exe was there even if it wasn't listed in the
support tools help. Back to http://www.howtonetworking.com. On the web page
was stated "use command browstat status <domain> or browstat stats
\\<server>. Problem here is I had a peer to peer network that was not a
domain or had a server.
I tried browstat status and got Master browser name is: HOM200OF001. However
following that was Could not open key in registry, error = 5 Unable to
determine build of brower master: 5. What do I do with this error?

Assuming the Master browser has a problem, what is the next step?

Joe