Master Browser broadcast

Our network is mixed MS & NetWare. Some of our XP Pro desktops and some of our Windows 2000 Servers are broadcasting they are master browsers. It seems to me that's generating unnecessary network traffic, besides the aggravation of wading through all the warnings in the event logs. I've been told there's nothing we can do about it though. As a test I disabled my own Computer Browser service on my XP Pro laptop and I haven't seen any ill effects. Am I missing something? Thanks in advance.

You can find more information about Browsing services in this article
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000...asp?frame=true


"Beckie" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:3AFA4C08-22C3-4263-8534-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Our network is mixed MS & NetWare. Some of our XP Pro desktops and some of
our Windows 2000 Servers are broadcasting they are master browsers. It seems
to me that's generating unnecessary network traffic, besides the aggravation
of wading through all the warnings in the event logs. I've been told
there's nothing we can do about it though. As a test I disabled my own
Computer Browser service on my XP Pro laptop and I haven't seen any ill
effects. Am I missing something? Thanks in advance.

If your not running legacy applications that require the browsing service
(or users that go to network neighborhood and browse for services), you can
disable the computer browser. We have the service disabled on our machines
without any problems.

"Beckie" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:3AFA4C08-22C3-4263-8534-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Our network is mixed MS & NetWare. Some of our XP Pro desktops and some of
our Windows 2000 Servers are broadcasting they are master browsers. It seems
to me that's generating unnecessary network traffic, besides the aggravation
of wading through all the warnings in the event logs. I've been told
there's nothing we can do about it though. As a test I disabled my own
Computer Browser service on my XP Pro laptop and I haven't seen any ill
effects. Am I missing something? Thanks in advance.

There should not be any ill effects if you disable the computer browser other than not being able to hold a browse list.
Here is a suggestion to setting up browsing for single segment network:

For any registry setting below, see article Q136712

1) Disable the ability of all but a few servers to participate in browsing
elections on each subnet (need 1 browser for every 32 machines). The setting in the
registry is MaintainServerList = No (or disable the browser service if NT/W2k).
This will prevent machines that are rebooted often from initiating a browsing
election and cause different servers to be elected as the master browser at
frequent intervals. This is the single most important thing you can do to stabilize
your browsing environment.

2) On the few servers that will participate in browsing elections, they should be
servers that are rarely rebooted. Never disable a PDC's ability to participate in
browsing elections. Pick one server per subnet to be the master browser and set it
to IsDomainMaster = True

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>From: =?Utf-8?B?QmVja2ll?= <(E-Mail Removed)>
>Subject: Master Browser broadcast
>Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:01:10 -0700
>
>Our network is mixed MS & NetWare. Some of our XP Pro desktops and some of our Windows 2000 Servers are broadcasting they are master browsers. It
seems to me that's generating unnecessary network traffic, besides the aggravation of wading through all the warnings in the event logs. I've been told
there's nothing we can do about it though. As a test I disabled my own Computer Browser service on my XP Pro laptop and I haven't seen any ill effects.
Am I missing something? Thanks in advance.
>

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Sergio Moreno
Microsoft Windows Networking

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