Browse List has several stations that have been retired

[jimthecanadian]

My browse list has several stations that have been off of the network for months. I am seeing no event log errors and I have no clue how to clean them up. We currently use no WINS server and there are no DNS or AD registrations for these stations.

I have tried forcing elections and changing the master browser station. To be honest I am drawign a blank, I know some of the things to do when things don;t show up, a little confused about things not going away,

Thanks for any tips

 

[itsp1965]

Were these machines just taken off the network or were they removed from the domain first?

 

[jimthecanadian]

To be honest, I inherrited this problem so I cannot answer with any certainty. But it is likely they were just removed from the network, and removed from AD some time after that

 

[itsp1965]

Is it possible you have multiple network segments on your LAN where there could be another master browser? Take a look at the following article to see if it helps

Troubleshooting the Microsoft Computer Browser Service

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/188305

 

[jimthecanadian]

I have seen that article before ( but one more perusal could not hurt).

While that article is focused on finding why a computer is not is the browse list, it offers a couple of interesting tests.

(I will use the reference to one computer even though there are more than one)

- ComputerX is in the browse list of its segment
- The PDC (on that same segment) is also getting it from the master browser
- While there are multiple segments, we do not run WINS and the master browsers on each of the other segments also have ComputerX in the browse list