Without describing the "major problem" with the network it's hard to conclude very much, but......a machine becoming the master browser should not effect much more than the other machines in the workgroup/domain ability to see other machines on a browse list. The maximum size of a browse list is 64K (2500 machines approx) so you don't have much data being transferred.
I would look elsewhere for the solution to the problem. This is not it. J -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Donlon [mailto:pat_donlon@;yahoo.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 6:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OT: Windows meltdown??? [7:56190] We had an interested situation develop yesterday, about mid morning the helpdesk manager reported a major problem with the network. Checked the network with HPOV and some basic stuff on the core switches to check cpu, peaks, etc. All was fine. Spoke to the NT team and it seems two servers are having problems, a file server and a BDC. After some investigation (event log checking probably) they tell me that the problem is caused by a machine becoming the master browser. So a man hunt begins for a machine (a non standard one from the name found for the machine) on a VLAN which was separate from the VLAN the servers sit on. The machine was not responding to pings and was probably not even being used! Eventually the user came back to his machine mid afternoon and we find the port being used and the NT guys disable his Computer Browser. In between finding the machine the two offending servers had to be re-booted to fix their mystery problems. >From what I know about the browser this shouldn't cause a problem on the network and if it does only with the windows machines in that subnet ( please correct feel free to correct me). Also XP has default registry settings to prevent it becoming the master browser - yep the guy was using XP (Japanese edition). Has anyone else had such a meltdown on their Windows environment because of such problems or is this just a case a apportioning blame to an outsider? Cheers Pat Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=56203&t=56190 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
