Guest Tester Posted October 15, 2008 Posted October 15, 2008 Hi there, Is it possible to make 2 machines master browsers for a remote subnet or it would cause some sort of conflict? I mean to set the settings isdomainmaster to true and maintainserverlist to yes in registry? My goal is to prevent another machine to become master browser which I already set the above settings to "No" and to have a backup of the master browser if the other one is not powered up for that remote subnet. Thank you, T
Guest John John (MVP) Posted October 15, 2008 Posted October 15, 2008 Re: master browser question No, you can only have one Master Browser, but you can have Potential Browsers (Backup Browsers) and you can have the Master Browser decided by browser elections. Machines can be set to participate or not in the elections and the winner will be decided by a predetermined pecking order. Having browser elections will assure that another machine will be elected when the preferred Master Brower machine is down. John Tester wrote: > Hi there, > Is it possible to make 2 machines master browsers for a remote subnet > or it would cause some sort of conflict? > I mean to set the settings isdomainmaster to true and > maintainserverlist to yes in registry? > My goal is to prevent another machine to become master browser which I > already set the above settings to "No" and to have a backup of the > master browser if the other one is not powered up for that remote > subnet. > Thank you, T
Guest John Wunderlich Posted October 15, 2008 Posted October 15, 2008 Re: master browser question Tester <calinguga@netscape.net> wrote in news:6b3264fc-f09f-4d2e-8ded-a9d199055b18@v13g2000pro.googlegroups.co m: > Hi there, > Is it possible to make 2 machines master browsers for a remote > subnet or it would cause some sort of conflict? > I mean to set the settings isdomainmaster to true and > maintainserverlist to yes in registry? > My goal is to prevent another machine to become master browser > which I already set the above settings to "No" and to have a > backup of the master browser if the other one is not powered up > for that remote subnet. > Thank you, T The default settings will allow for elections and one winner will become the master browser. Another will take over if it becomes unavailable. If there is a machine that you absolutely don't want to become the master browser, the preferred method is to stop the "Computer Browser" Service on that machine and prevent it from running at startup. No registry edits required. (Right-click "My Computer" -> Manage -> Services and Applications -> Services -> Dbl-Click "Computer Browser" then Startup Type: Manual or Disabled Click "Stop" button if available. HTH, John
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