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Frustrating Network Abnormality
I have a mixed network in my house. Number of Win 7 pcs, some laptops connecting wirelessly and a couple of Xbox's via cable also connected. There's also a couple of older XP pcs still used as video/audio servers to various tvs in the house and an IP camera. Except laptops all are connected via wire, laptops wired usually but sometimes wireless is used instead. Issue is one of my Win 7 pcs. When it's running as Browser Master none of the XP pcs can browse the network, IP addresses work and shortcuts to shares all work but trying to explore will not! Only the one Win 7 pc does this and for the life of me I can't figure out why as other than video card it's almost identical to another which doesn't exibit issue. I'm forced to reboot the "bad" pc so another pc becomes Master Browser and then all well. Anyone with any ideas? Also, there seems to be registry settings to force a pc to become master browser but is there on to tell it not to become one instead? |
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Frustrating Network Abnormality
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I have a mixed network in my house. Number of Win 7 pcs, some laptops connecting wirelessly and a couple of Xbox's via cable also connected. There's also a couple of older XP pcs still used as video/audio servers to various tvs in the house and an IP camera. Except laptops all are connected via wire, laptops wired usually but sometimes wireless is used instead. Issue is one of my Win 7 pcs. When it's running as Browser Master none of the XP pcs can browse the network, IP addresses work and shortcuts to shares all work but trying to explore will not! Only the one Win 7 pc does this and for the life of me I can't figure out why as other than video card it's almost identical to another which doesn't exibit issue. I'm forced to reboot the "bad" pc so another pc becomes Master Browser and then all well. Anyone with any ideas? Also, there seems to be registry settings to force a pc to become master browser but is there on to tell it not to become one instead? PJP, Run regedit.exe and do the following: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Browser\Parameters Create a string "IsDomainMaster"and set it to FALSE. Reboot. Should be all set. JT -- |
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