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On 5 Oct 99, at 14:52, Kyle Elmblade wrote:
> It is my understanding that if you have an NT server, and it is
> running before any other systems try to log on to the network, it
> automatically sets itself up as the Browse Master and will not
> allow any other machine to do so. However, in a peer-to-peer
> network running either Windows 95 or Windows 98, they try to
> wrestle each other for the honor, and you have trouble with seeing
> the other systems.
This is awfully close.
A machine gets the stuff it shows under "Network Neighborhood" from
the "Browse Master". In a peer-to-peer network, the first discovery
that there isn't a current browse master my be when some station asks
for this info, and gets no reply.
When a browse master request times out, a browse master election is
held. The rules for such elections mean that an NT server will
always beat an Win 9x workstation (although not all servers are
created equal...).
David G
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