Strange Browsing problems on W2K Network

[Guest]

Been scratching my head on this one for a while now, think I either lack a
basic undrstanding of browsing within a W2k environment or there is something
strange on the network..

We have three AD DC servers on this network, Server1, Server2 and Server3. 1
& 2 are on a network 172.16.0.0/16 and Server 3 is on 172.17.0.0/16. Clients
are a mix of 9x, Win2k & XP.

Server 1 (172.16.1.1) - DNS, DHCP & WINS - Infrastructure Master
Server 2 (172.16.1.13) - GC - RID, PDC, Domain Naming & Schema Master
Server 3 (172.17.1.1) - DNS, DHCP & WINS - GC

DNS & WINS Servers are set to replicate with each other. Clients are DHCP,
DHCP Server gives out both DNS & WINS servers as primary & secondaries to
each user on each network.

The two networks are conected via an invisible hardware bridge.

The problem is - PCs in the 172.17 network can see ALL of the PCs on the
network whereas PCs in the 172.16 network can only see machines on the 172.16
network. Also the servers only have 1 or 2 machines in their list.

Any ideas? The only thing I can think is that the LMHost files they are
using historically have some bizzare entry in them?

Look forward to your responses,

Cheers

Rich

 

[Jim in Arizona]

I don't have an answer for your question, but some advice to pass on that
was given to me when our company set up our w2k domain infrastructure.

"It isn't a good idea to run two dynamic naming services on the same box".
... ie, wins and dns. Why this is, exactly, I don't know. I was advised that
it could cause problems. We run our WINS and DHCP services on the same boxes
but not DNS and WINS. The only reason we even use wins is because our
anti-virus system requires it to function properly otherwise we'd use DNS
only.

Jim

 

[Guest]

Thanks Jim, I'll change this config anyway.

I don't have an answer for your question, but some advice to pass on that
was given to me when our company set up our w2k domain infrastructure.

"It isn't a good idea to run two dynamic naming services on the same box".
... ie, wins and dns. Why this is, exactly, I don't know. I was advised that
it could cause problems. We run our WINS and DHCP services on the same boxes
but not DNS and WINS. The only reason we even use wins is because our
anti-virus system requires it to function properly otherwise we'd use DNS
only.

Jim