Guest jimi hendrix Posted July 31, 2007 Posted July 31, 2007 Does the Directory Service in a windows 2000 domain replaces the computer browser service. I suspect the browser service from generating a lot of network traffic, so I want to disable the service. In the Windows 2000 domain are 2003 member servers present, xp and 2000 pro clients. All the comments are very welcome, thanks in advance
Guest Bruce Sanderson Posted July 31, 2007 Posted July 31, 2007 Re: Directory Service According to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/188001, Active Directory does "replace" the Brower service; in many cases, one can live without the browser service. In a network that has a large number of computers, this list is not as useful as it is in smaller networks - it's not efficient/effective to scroll through several thousand computer names! So, it is fairly common in larger networks to disable this service. For browsing to work when there is more than one LAN (connected by routers), there has to be a WINS server and the computers have to be configured (e.g. via DHCP) to register with the WINS service. When you key the name of the computer (e.g. in Start, Run or Map Network Drive - \\computername), Windows will resolve the name to an IP address using DNS - the browser service is not required for this to work. See http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/winntas/deploy/prodspecs/ntbrowse.mspx?mfr=true for details about the Browser Service. -- Bruce Sanderson MVP Printing http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders It is perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question. "jimi hendrix" <jimihendrix@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:B165286F-6026-44AD-928A-A5D72397E3EA@microsoft.com... > Does the Directory Service in a windows 2000 domain replaces the computer > browser service. > I suspect the browser service from generating a lot of network traffic, so > I > want to disable the service. > In the Windows 2000 domain are 2003 member servers present, xp and 2000 > pro > clients. > > All the comments are very welcome, thanks in advance
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