Re: Windows Network Browser Master
Originally Posted by
mkelley65 The steps I posted worked on my corporate LAN/WAN and my two personal subnets. If you are not going to troubleshoot using the steps I provided my energy is wasted. Good luck.
I'm not debating if they work, they just don't work for my home network. I'm definitely not a network guru, but I do have some core understanding and experience. Does yor home network have an ADS or PDC? If so, that's likely the difference between your setup and that of some of us here, as these will always win the Master Browser election. In the abscence of an ADS or PDC, I don't believe the registry tweak is sufficient, as it does not change the OS level being reported, it just indicates the preferred master when equivalent machines are part of the election. In this case, an incorrect OS level configuration setting in the playbooks Samba setup would still mess things up.
As noted at the beginning of the thread, this only started happening when OS 2.0.1 came out, prior to that my network was fine without having to make any of these tweaks. It still puzzles me why a mobile device would ever be configured to allow it to be the master browser, though I know there have been issued with other devices too such as the Seagate network drives (they fixed their issue though).
I definitely open to other suggestions.