• Forcing Election on Master Browser

    Question:

    The browsing on my windows network does not seem to work.

    Answer:

    The problem might be on the Master Browser for the subnet.

    If it is the one with the PDC Restart the Computer Browser Service on the PDC otherwise you need to locate the Master Browser for that segment. If it is a NT/2000/XP machine restart the service, if it is a 9x computer reboot it.

    To locate the masterbrowser and force an election you can use BROWSTAT.exe from the Resource Kit.

  • Solving Netdiag Problems

    [WARNING] At least one of the <00> ‘WorkStation Service’, <03> ‘Messenger Service’, <20> ‘WINS’ names is missing.

       Since this a warning it is safe to ignore

    [Fatal] Secure channel to domain ‘ourdomain’ is broken.

       Reset the secure channel to the domain with netdom reset computer /domain:domain