Subj : Re: Browser forced an election on network? To : Randall Parker From : Rich Date : Fri Mar 23 2001 05:14 am From: "Rich" <@> It means there is no master browser to be found on this protocol on = this interface so the process to elect one was triggered. Do you use = NetBIOS over IPX on your network? If not that would explain it. You = would be best to remove the protocol. Rich "Randall Parker" wrote in message = news:MPG.152559639dd8102398b8ac@news.barkto.com... Running NT4 SP5 on this particular machine and had just updated from = SP3=20 to SP5 (going higher shortly). I see this as an event in my event log. = Event ID 8033 Source BROWSER Type Information Category None The browser has forced an election on network \Device\NwlnkNb because = a=20 master browser was stopped. What the heck does that mean? And why on boot-up did my machine try to dial out my modem? I don't = have=20 auto-dial enabled. --- XP Toss HTML Stripper v0.3.4 * Origin: Barktopia Gating Project (1:379/100) .