Master Browser information needed

[DanClark86]

On a Novel Network with W2k Workstations, How do i identify which of the 300 computers is acting as a master browser (it's not the server, And all of the workstations are created from the same immage, Meaning that all workstation are Y2k SP3) Thanks for all of your help

 

[Provogeek]

Well, you only have to worry about the master browser in a peer-to-peer Windows network and it will be the first Windows box that comes up. So it can vary from day to day as machines reboot. Hard set a system and it will stay the master browser.

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[bcastner]

Microsoft networks using the IPX/SPX-compatible protocol (NWLink), have only one master browser for each domain and name queries are sent across routers in such a network automatically.

If yours is all TCP/IP and Netbios, each network segment will have a Master Browser (Netbios will not route). In addition, for every 32 machines there is a backup master browser that is updated every 15 minutes by the Master browser.

 

[Grenage]

Normally your PDC.

If you do a search on google for BROWMON.EXE and run that, it will tell you who the Master Browser and Secondary Browsers are.