The rule of thumb, as I've seen it stated in some olde Windows95 documentation, is that following the election of the Local Master Browser, one of the other Potential Browsers is selected to be a Backup Browser. For every 32 nodes on the subnet (how is this determined) there is supposed to be yet another Backup Browser.
That's what the docs say anyway. What I find annoying is that I cannot get W/NT4 to select another node as a backup browser. This suggests that the "real" formula is Backup Browser count = 0 + trunc( nodes / 32 ) instead of Backup Browser count = 1 + trunc( nodes / 32 ) Thing is, I want to take a look at the protocol used to update the Backup Browsers from the LMB's list. Any clues anyone? Chris -)----- -- Samba Team -- http://www.samba.org/ -)----- Christopher R. Hertel jCIFS Team -- http://jcifs.samba.org/ -)----- ubiqx development, uninq. ubiqx Team -- http://www.ubiqx.org/ -)----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] OnLineBook -- http://ubiqx.org/cifs/ -)----- [EMAIL PROTECTED]