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by mjkohn

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Hi all,

I have a simple problem and for the life of me, can't find the answer to it.
I have some old and test domain/workgroup names showing in my network
neighborhood, which are not really there. I tried to restart my Wins servers
(deletemappings) and used browmon and can not find who is holding on to
these bogus entries. I have a suspicion that some master browser/backup
browser/browser is holding on to these entries and am trying to remove them.
I have multiple VLAN's and a mixture of Win NT 4 and 2K workstations running
on my network. Anyone know of a utility out there that would clean out the
old names?

Thanks in advanced.

Mitch

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by yasirs

Hi,
Well it seems like you have a lmhosts file problem
make sure you uncheck the lmhosts file check box in the TCP/IP settings especially on the WINS and WINS proxy servers , also are you using DNS sometimes WINS and DNS can be enabled together inthis way , you could even need to purge the DNS, the last thing I know of is to set the registery for In Windows NT 4.0, you must manually change the following registry parameter
to 0 to enable the WINS Proxy Agent:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netbt\Parameters\

Value Name: EnableProxy
Value Type: REG_DWORD
Values: (0 or 1)
Default: 0

but as long as the changes are concurrent on the servers then the changes should be replicated to the other browsers.

by mjkohn

I don't use lmhosts and some of these (there are 5 phantom domains/workgroups)which are no longer on the network.

by mjkohn

I already tried that and read those articles. I am thinking that Arcserve Discovery service may have something to do with it.

Thanks,
Mitch

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