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[George W]

Your Browstat indicates that you have more than one Master Browser which is what I suspected.

I think Windows default is that every computer is a Master Browser. From experience I have changed this setting in the Windows registry. It may be possible to change it in the Group Policy editor.

Also, it may be possible that a computer without Netbios over TCP/IP is becoming the master in which case it wouldn't share computer names.

In a correct configuration it can take a few minutes for the Master Browser to get established.

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[Peter Barwich]

See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;135404&Product=win2000.
This says that dual homed computers may have problems with the MS Computer Browser service. (i.e. those machines with two IP addresses from two (real or virtual) network adaptors). This applies to machines with Hamachi, which is like OpenVPN, and installs a second, virtual, network adaptor. I found that if you disable NetBios over TCP/IP on the additional adaptor the Computer Browser service does not 'see' the additional adaptor and works fine.

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