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by jhaggerty

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Working in a Windows Network Environment with an AD server in 15 locations. When browsing entire network, some servers do not always show up on the browse list. Some times they are present, and some times they are not. I can UNC path (\\servername) to a server that does not show up and it comes up fine.

Any ideas what might cause this and whether there is a configuration change that may resolve the issue?

Thanks.

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by retro77

In my experience, I have viewed the Network Neighborhood/My Network Places as an unreliable tool because of this. I dont get my users hooked on browsing for servers, I even hide it from the desktop via GPO.

There are timeouts involved and master browser stuff that just seems buggy.

Instead I map their drives to server shares.

by sgt_shultz

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/134304/en-us'
'Troubleshooting Browsing with Client for Microsoft Networks'
my instinct is to see which computer has been elected the browse master and see if it has intermittent network connectivity or for some other reason goes 'off' your network

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