Subj : Slow network browsing?
To   : Stewart Honsberger
From : Jeff Guerdat
Date : Sun Dec 09 2001 01:36 am

On 12-08-01, Stewart Honsberger said to Jeff Guerdat:

SH>Hello Jeff!

SH>Dec 07 2001 07:37, Jeff Guerdat wrote to Stewart Honsberger:

SH>>It even takes a lot time on the second browse of a workgroup. ie: I
SH>>browse the "smokey" workgroup, close "Network Neighborhood", re-
SH>>open it, try to browse "smokey" again and I have to wait as
SH>>much as 30 seconds to a full minute.

JG> It may well be that you're forcing a browser election.

SH>Really?

SH>I see no way to alter Win2kPro's OS level. Do you know how I could do
SH>this? Many of the networks I experience problems on, BTW, are pure
SH>Win'98SE.

I don't know a way of increaing the OS level on the OS itself.  However, your
observation of the networks being pure W98 increases my suspicion that it's
browse master-related.  If they could/would set up one NT/W2K/WXP box,
preferably running server (so the OS level is higher than workstation/Pro),
the troubles should go away.  Failing that, I think you're stuck since the
addition of your laptop will force the election (I'd think that once it became
the browse master, however, it would remain there and no one else, other than
new machines being booted, would try to force a reelection.  Perhaps having
them set the TCP/IP properties on all but one machine to turn off the ability
to become a master would help - but that depends on your ability to talk them
into doing it.



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