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RDR error on PDC

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by yadavshashi

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In our campus students have pcs in thier rooms and often they create thier own workgroup and few have installed server. Rooms are on diffrent vlan than lecture buildings. But I see lots and lots rdr error on my pdc stating :
"The master browser hasreceived a server announcement from the computer MUGUET,the master browser is stopping or an election is being forced".

What can I do to stop these errors.

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by bobby gillette

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but since the students have their own workstations (no doubt running NT, 2k, or XP), you'll always have this problem. To force a workstation (or server, for that matter) to not try and become the master browser on a segment (normally this job is taken care of by your PDC) is to change the MaintainBrowseList value to "No" in the Registry. You can of course take the information from your event logs and track down each and every computer and make the necessary change, but I'd wager this would take a great deal of time considering you work in a university environment.

Hope this helps,

~Bobby

by bobby gillette

The answer below is only partially correct... and doesn't apply to NT 4, Win2k, and XP workstations ;) The long and short of it is that unless you have a great deal of time to track down each and every offending computer, I wouldn't lose a whole lotof sleep over the problem...

by acattr

Only Windows 98 machines that have file/print sharing enabled do this. To stop them from trying to be a master browswer. OPen up the Network control panel, select Microsoft file and print sharing, properties. look for the "Master Browser" option,set it to no.

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