master browser on each subnet ??????

[pbxphoneman]

When setting up a router and using WIN98se machines...on each subnet do I need to define a master browser computer and LMHOSTS file? Or....master on one subnet and all other computers reguardless on what side of the router as slaves (disabled) ?

thanks you

 

[hexn]

each subnet. the master browser is determined/found by using broadcasts. routers do not forward broadcasts.

 

[hexn]

Oops, I believe with the LMHosts file, you can place that on just one subnet and point your other computers to its IP address...

 

[hexn]

Taken from:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/default.asp?url=/ARCHIVE/en-us/dnarwnet/html/msdn_browse1.asp

under "Browsing and Windows 95 Networking: Part 2"

If some subnets in the domain do not include a Windows NT Server computer. For each subnet that does not include a Windows NT Server computer, the following must be true:

a.. The remote subnet must include at least one computer configured to be the master browser. This can be a computer running Windows 95 plus File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks with Browse Master enabled or a
computer running Windows NT Workstation configured with Maintain Server List enabled.
b.. The LMHOSTS files for browse masters on other subnets must include entries mapping the computer name and IP address for the remote browse masters that are computers running Windows 95 or Windows NT Workstation.
If a subnet includes only Windows 95 but no members of domains that span subnets. Users in such an isolated subnet cannot browse computers in a workgroup or domain on any other subnet, and users on other subnets cannot
browse the computers on the isolated subnet. For users on these subnets to browse each other's computers, one computer on the isolated subnet must be a member of a domain on the other subnet and also must be configured as a
master browser with appropriate LMHOSTS entries as described in the previous case.

 

[pbxphoneman]

ok...I think I'm getting it...there is a difference in the Domain Master Browser & master browser...I would have just tried to add entries for master browser in the LMHOSTS file,and not even thought about a higher up controller (PDC)that would span my T1 and look to the other side for other machines.I thought that just by putting in static entries of the WAN computers would have done it...but then it would have been like HOSTS which didn't do much for me.
MS kept mentioning PDC in the same breath as WINNT & WIN2K.I had no idea I have to make a PDC for a win95/98 machine.
thanks a million guys !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!