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by jaolson40 2 views

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About 75% of the time, our PDC will connect to Windows 95/98 with File and Print sharing enabled and maintain a connection, no matter how often we disconnect the PDC or reboot, reinstall Windows or set permissions on the Windows 9x machines. We don't have anything shared out...just the service installed.

Can anyone tell me why the PDC (and it's always the PDC) establishes a connection to these machines? Don't want to be told how to stop it, just want to know why it's doing it. Tried the MS support site, worse than useless performing searches there.

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by madroxxx

This is most likely because the 98 machines are set to master browser. Thus the force elections with your PDC(which will always win). It is a good idea to go to the file and print sharing properties and disable master browser and set them to LM announce.

by green lantern

Sorry, but answer is not a probable cause for the PDC maintaining a connection with your 98 machines.
Your PDC is probably maintaining an IPC$ connection because they are shared resources on the domain. Since the PDC is the master browser and mustknow what is avaialble in order to broadcast the correct information it establishes this connection to monitor the share availability.
This is normal activity. It doesn't eat up a lot of resources so you should not be concurned about the connection.

ralph

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