Help! win2k box wants to be a master browser, can't see PDC

[Bob]

I realized there was a problem when my win2k machine could see all computers in
the network except the PDC. I thought, that's strange... I can't even ping its
IP address. Nothing I do can correct the problem, and the PDC is complaining in
its event log that

'the master browser has received a server announcement from the computer
<problem computer> that believes that it is the master browser for the domain on
transport NetBT_E100B1. The master browser is stopping or election is being
forced.'

However I looked in the problem computer's registry to see if it was configured
to be a master browser, and
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Browser\Parameters\IsDomain
Master is False.

I don't know what to do short of reinstalling the OS. I've never seen this
behavior before.

Any help would be appreciated,

Bob

 

[Marc Reynolds [MSFT]]

Stop and disable the Computer Browser service on the problem Win2K machine.

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Thanks,
Marc Reynolds
Microsoft Technical Support

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

 

[Bob]

Did that, rebooted, checked that it wasn't running. Maybe that will stop the
browser election warning on the PDC, but I still can see the PDC from the
problem machine. Anything else I can do?

 

[Bob]

I found the problem... it was with the PDC. The browser stuff was just a
side-effect.

Bob