Master Browser

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Danny Kile

How can you force a PC to be the Master Browser? This would be on either
a XP or 2000 machine.


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Danny Kile said:
How can you force a PC to be the Master Browser? This would be on either a
XP or 2000 machine.


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Only sure-fire way is by making it the PDC of the domain.
Then it becomes the Domain Master Browser.

Other that that, it's a Free and Fair Election.

Each machine offers it's version number etc, an election takes place, and
that's it.

Typically, server OSes win over client OSes.
Then newer versions win over old.

There are a few hanging chads to play with if you want to skew the election.

For starters, you can _prevent_ a machine from becoming the master browser
by stopping the browser service. If that's too drastic, there are registry
keys you can tweek to give it a leg up in the election. But these tweeks
are somewhat down the election criteria - below those I mentioned above.
 
How can you force a PC to be the Master Browser? This would be on either
a XP or 2000 machine.
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Danny,

The election of a master browser involves all of the computers that are running
the browser service. In order to force an election, you would have to change
the characteristics of the other browser computers.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/04/nt-browser-or-why-cant-i-always-see.html>
<http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winntas/deploy/prodspecs/ntbrowse.mspx>
 
I looked for that setting or option on xpsp2 not too long ago - support
pages explained the machine with the least up time will assume the title of
master browser as it has the most recent discovery and most current tables
in memory.
 
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