[Wolves] Network problems

James Turner james at turnersoft.co.uk
Fri Jan 7 17:58:44 GMT 2005


On Thursday 06 Jan 2005 12:49, Mark Ellse wrote:

> Workgroup is not accessible
> The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available
>
> Obviously the master browser has gone down in some way. Is it telling
> the network that it is doing the job, but not actually doing so? Is
> there any easy way on a network of thirty machines of finding which is
> the master browser?
>
> Any advice would be appreciated?

I suggest making sure that the master browser is always a server
wherever possible. Under Samba this can be done by tweaking the "local
master", "os level", "domain master" and "prefered master" settings.
If the server is always left on (at least during the lab's hours of
operation) then this message shouldn't occur. It's a limitation of the
way Microsoft decided to do things.

Regards,

James



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