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Who's the Master Browser?

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by dgemcse

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Aside from browstat (from reskit) is ther any app out, or another creative way to determine browse masters?
I have a uniquely strange situation in where I have a domain across two subnets. Seems that I cannot see or connect to (NetBT) the PDC whilein one, but not in another.
It is NOT network related, nor router related.
Seems that the browse masters have gotten screwed up somehow. This network is a mess, and has had many machines, and/or workgroups added, and no best practices followed.
I'm just trying to clean up ....
Can anyone help with a suggestion?
Need to find out why some machines have different masters, and they don't all have the same browse list (missing a machine here or there), and can't connect to PDC from other subnet. (cause browse list can't see it)

D.E.

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by mcclenbw

I really uestion that this isn't a network issue. With multiple subnets usually a WINS server is used to allow different machines on different subnets to see each oher. Is a WINS Server present?

by dcadmin

It would be best to check the wins setup and in the mean time put together a lmhosts file and put the domain and pdc entry in the file, you can look up on how to format the lmhosts file in technet in article Q102725 or just search on ms website for more help. Other wise you can add static mappings for the wins server and a master browser entry in the wins database.

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