Wins issue with XP and server 2003

[korgul]

A friend of mine is having an issue with his home network. I told him I would post the problem here to see if anyone might know the answer.


HOW, can my 2003 wins server think there is another server on the network IF that other machine is a Windows XP Pro machine WITHOUT the server service running?????

it keeps forcing an election and WINS is hosed on my network.... because the XP pro machine IS NOT a BDC, a Wins server (or a server period) or a DNS server....

[PresterJohn]

what you are experiencing has NOTHING to do with XP and its server service...you have a browser contention issue.

there are two things you must do. on your workstations:

open the registry, goto: \hkey_local_machine\system\currentcontrolset\servi ces\browser\parameters

there are two subkeys of interest, make sure they are set to the following:

IsDomainMaster set to FALSE
MaintainServerList set to AUTO (in some instances you might need to set this to NO, but try it w/the AUTO setting first)

on your DC's(s), make sure those same registry settings are:

IsDomainMaster set to TRUE (non-DC's are recommended to be set to NO)
MaintainServerList set to YES

reboot the servers first, then do the workstations.

then expect my consultant bill next week.

[korgul]

Thanks I will pass the info along and let you know how it works.