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[ 21-04-2001 ]
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      [Windows 2000 not visible in network neighborhood
      Is Netbios over tcpip enabled on this pc?

      To check right click on mY network places,properties,click on Local Area Connection(or whatever you have renamed it to),properties, click on Internet Protocol(tcpip),click on the Properties button,click on the Advanced button at the bottom,click on the WINS tab, and verify that Enable Netbios Over TCPIP is checked. Now of course this assumes that you are not using DHCP server on this lan.

      You do not need to install the Netbeui network protocol to get your lan browsing within Network Neighborhood or My network Places to function properly.

      If after verifying that you have Netbios over tcpip enabled(and remember for security purposes, this sgould never be enabled on your external network interface, ie the nic thats on the internet side), you continue to have lan browsing problems, then raed the following and it will alleviate any lan browsing problems that you may have:

      If you are having problems not being able to see one or more pc's on your lan in either Network Neighborhood and or My Network Places,you might want to use the information that follows to solve these lan browser problems with mixed windows OS lans.

      First look at the following resources:

      http://www.sohointer.net/howto/fix-hood.htm
      http://www.is-it-true.org/nt/registry/rtips13.shtml
      http://is-it-true.org/nt/registry/rtips15.shtml

      As the first resource is telling you, by default win9x/me(ie win95/98/98se/me) ALL by default have the Browser Master election set to Automatic. IF these are the kind of OSes you have on your lan, the simple solution is to set your Primary PC as ENABLED, and any other as DISABLED. Again as that article states, the primary PC which is now the Master Browser MUST always BE turned on First for Network Neighborhood Browsing to work.(from the 2nd and subsequent PC's point of view)

      You can edit these values with the registry editor as follows:

        HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\VNETSUP\MaintainServerList=0 which is Disable and =1 for Enable.
      For more information on this see this: http://www.helmig.com/j_helmig/browse.htm

      Ok now what happens if we add a win2k pro or win2k server to this win9x/me lan network. As the above 2 additional resources show, there are 2 registry edits that are required if you are using win2kpro/server or NT4pro/server in a win9x/me lan.

      These are :
      MaintainServerList which can have a value of YES or NO and IsDomainMasterBrowser which can have a value of TRUE or FALSE. These are located at:

        HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Browser\Parameters
      Lets say we have a lan that has the same 2 win9x/Me pc's and we add a new PC running either NT4 server/pro or win2k server/pro. Then we would have to edit the registry on that new nt4/win2k PC to this:

      MaintainServerList = YES and ISDomainMasterBrowser = TRUE, and we would change the 1 Win9x/Me PC that has Browse Master set ENABLED to DISABLED like the other one from example 1 above.

      Again, the NT4/win2k PC should always be turned on First afterwards. As the Helmig article states, it can take up to 15 min OR MORE for the new Browser elections to take place and show up in Network Neighborhood or My Network Places.

      Hemigs listing of which OS takes precedence when it comes to Master Browser needs to be updated as follows:

        1.NT4 srv/Win2k Server
        2.NT4 wrks/Win2k Pro
        3.Win95/98/98se/me
        4.WFW 3.11
      To use the Network Neighborhood or My Network Places, you 1. Have to have something shared 2. You must logon to the LAN itself. In other words, you have to have File and Printer Sharing Installed and enabled and also the Client for MS Networks installed.

      Finally for this last example, lets say we add a NT4/win2k pro PC to our LAN that has the above config: 1 nt4/win2k server, and the 2 win95/98/98se/me PC's. For this config, we leave everything as is, except the 2 registry edits are now performed on the NT4/win2k pro PC as:

        MaintainServerList = AUTO and ISDomainMasterBrowser = FALSE
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