Incomplete Browser List in My Network Places

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TonyV

Would anyone have an idea why when I click on My Network
Places I get an incomplete list of machines?

I went to the MS KB and only found one article on this
that indicated that My DC and or clients do not have file
and print sharing enabled, I checked that and I do infact
have that feature enabled so I'm at a stand still.
Without a list it makes using Ghost Console very
difficult.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

TonyV
 
TonyV said:
I went to the MS KB and only found one article on this
that indicated that My DC and or clients do not have file
and print sharing enabled, I checked that and I do infact
have that feature enabled so I'm at a stand still.
Without a list it makes using Ghost Console very
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To my experience with Ghost Console, it only lists machines that have the
Ghost Console Client installed and running on them.

Do they show up in the WINS Server listing? Delete all the records in WINS
except for the static ones and wait for it to rebuild. Or at a minimum,
delete the "problem" machines from WINS and have the user reboot those
machines afterwards to cause WINS to re-register them.

Make sure the machine with Ghost Console is also using the same WINS Server
as everyone else.

Make sure you don't have Netbios over TCP/IP disabled anywhere.

Check the Event logs on the DC's and maybe other machiness as well for
Browser or Master Browser issues.

135279 - Incomplete Domain Listing on Very Large Networks
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;135279
 
Thank you Phillip.

I'm not using a WINS Server since my entire network is on
Windows 2000.

Tony

-----Original Message-----
I went to the MS KB and only found one article on this
that indicated that My DC and or clients do not have file
and print sharing enabled, I checked that and I do infact
have that feature enabled so I'm at a stand still.
Without a list it makes using Ghost Console very
Click to expand...

To my experience with Ghost Console, it only lists machines that have the
Ghost Console Client installed and running on them.

Do they show up in the WINS Server listing? Delete all the records in WINS
except for the static ones and wait for it to rebuild. Or at a minimum,
delete the "problem" machines from WINS and have the user reboot those
machines afterwards to cause WINS to re-register them.

Make sure the machine with Ghost Console is also using the same WINS Server
as everyone else.

Make sure you don't have Netbios over TCP/IP disabled anywhere.

Check the Event logs on the DC's and maybe other machiness as well for
Browser or Master Browser issues.

135279 - Incomplete Domain Listing on Very Large Networks
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en- us;135279

--

Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com


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TonyV said:
Thank you Phillip.

I'm not using a WINS Server since my entire network is on
Windows 2000.
Click to expand...

"Network Places" is still Netbios-based for the Windows Networking side of
it, as far as I know. Since it won't cross Routers, you need WINS. If you
open Network Places --> Entire Network and follow the "Directory" part of it
you will probably see the machines that aren't showing up on the Windows
Networking side of it.
 
Phillip,

Thank you very much for pointing me in the right
direction. We use a Unix box for our DHCP server and
found that we needed to impliment a Microsoft macro to
change the settings on our clients for NetBIOS over
TCP/IP. My machines are now showing up so again, Thank
you for your assistance.

Tony

-----Original Message-----
Thank you Phillip.

I'm not using a WINS Server since my entire network is on
Windows 2000.
Click to expand...

"Network Places" is still Netbios-based for the Windows Networking side of
it, as far as I know. Since it won't cross Routers, you need WINS. If you
open Network Places --> Entire Network and follow the "Directory" part of it
you will probably see the machines that aren't showing up on the Windows
Networking side of it.


--

Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com


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Thumbs-up!

--

Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com

TonyV said:
Phillip,

Thank you very much for pointing me in the right
direction. We use a Unix box for our DHCP server and
found that we needed to impliment a Microsoft macro to
change the settings on our clients for NetBIOS over
TCP/IP. My machines are now showing up so again, Thank
you for your assistance.

Tony

-----Original Message-----
Thank you Phillip.

I'm not using a WINS Server since my entire network is on
Windows 2000.
Click to expand...

"Network Places" is still Netbios-based for the Windows Networking side of
it, as far as I know. Since it won't cross Routers, you need WINS. If you
open Network Places --> Entire Network and follow the "Directory" part of it
you will probably see the machines that aren't showing up on the Windows
Networking side of it.


--

Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com


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