Domain Master Browser

Hi,
I am having issues with some machines not getting My Network Places updated
and also event errors in the logs on some servers and clients.
I started looking at the browser errors and came up with information that it
is recommended to stop the computer browser service on the other servers
except for the dc's.
Is that really recommended? Should that be stopped on all clients as well?
Will they still get updates though to refresh their network places

The short answer is yes, you can disable the computer browser on all the
clients and yes they will still get the updated browse list.

Do you see lots of error messages about browser elections? That is
probably what is causing the problem. The clients are not getting the list
sometimes because they are looking at the wrong server.

Do you have any multihomed servers or remote access servers? These are a
common cause of this problem.

jason wrote:
> Hi,
> I am having issues with some machines not getting My Network Places
> updated and also event errors in the logs on some servers and clients.
> I started looking at the browser errors and came up with information
> that it is recommended to stop the computer browser service on the
> other servers except for the dc's.
> Is that really recommended? Should that be stopped on all clients as
> well? Will they still get updates though to refresh their network
> places

Yes, we do have a RAS server that works with a checkpoint firewall to do the
VPN authentication.
There are some multihomed servers but in multihomed meaning 2 NICS?
I have some that have a nic that is on the 10.10.30 subnet and a 2nd that
has an IP in it for the 10.10.20 subnet
So stop the browser service on all servers and client machines except for
the dc's? Can you do the clients via group policy?
There are lots of browser elections in the event logs, clients doing it and
just member servers.

"Bill Grant" wrote:

> The short answer is yes, you can disable the computer browser on all the
> clients and yes they will still get the updated browse list.
>
> Do you see lots of error messages about browser elections? That is
> probably what is causing the problem. The clients are not getting the list
> sometimes because they are looking at the wrong server.
>
> Do you have any multihomed servers or remote access servers? These are a
> common cause of this problem.
>
> jason wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am having issues with some machines not getting My Network Places
> > updated and also event errors in the logs on some servers and clients.
> > I started looking at the browser errors and came up with information
> > that it is recommended to stop the computer browser service on the
> > other servers except for the dc's.
> > Is that really recommended? Should that be stopped on all clients as
> > well? Will they still get updates though to refresh their network
> > places
>
>
>

Multihomed servers are a big problem with the browser service. It works
best if only one NIC has Netbios over TCP/IP enabled. Similarly with remote
access servers, the extra IP the server gets for the "internal" interface
can also upset the browser service. See KB 191611 and 292822 .

jason wrote:
> Yes, we do have a RAS server that works with a checkpoint firewall to
> do the VPN authentication.
> There are some multihomed servers but in multihomed meaning 2 NICS?
> I have some that have a nic that is on the 10.10.30 subnet and a 2nd
> that has an IP in it for the 10.10.20 subnet
> So stop the browser service on all servers and client machines except
> for the dc's? Can you do the clients via group policy?
> There are lots of browser elections in the event logs, clients doing
> it and just member servers.
>
> "Bill Grant" wrote:
>
>> The short answer is yes, you can disable the computer browser on
>> all the clients and yes they will still get the updated browse list.
>>
>> Do you see lots of error messages about browser elections? That
>> is probably what is causing the problem. The clients are not getting
>> the list sometimes because they are looking at the wrong server.
>>
>> Do you have any multihomed servers or remote access servers?
>> These are a common cause of this problem.
>>
>> jason wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I am having issues with some machines not getting My Network Places
>>> updated and also event errors in the logs on some servers and
>>> clients. I started looking at the browser errors and came up with
>>> information that it is recommended to stop the computer browser
>>> service on the other servers except for the dc's.
>>> Is that really recommended? Should that be stopped on all clients
>>> as well? Will they still get updates though to refresh their network
>>> places