How to disable master browsing in W2K and XP

[Chip Gehrke]

How do I disable a workstation with W2K or WinXP from
trying to continually force elections to try and be a
master browser on our network? I knew how to do it with
Win98 and 95 but I don't know how to accomplish this with
2000 or XP.

Any help would be appreciated. We have some XP laptops
that are continually hitting our WINS servers trying to be
the master browser.

 

[Marc Reynolds [MSFT]]

Turn off the Computer Browser service and disable it. It will not affect the
clients ability to browse or show up in browse lists, but will stop it from
participating in and forcing elections.

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Thanks,
Marc Reynolds
Microsoft Technical Support

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

 

[Chip Gehrke]

Thanks Marc.

I have another question though, why would only a few of
our workstations try and force elections? They all have
the same image so I don't understand why only a few would
try and force elections. I am going to double check the
services on the systems that are forcing elections and the
systems that are not.

Thanks for any thougts you have on this.

Chip