windoze user

Well, I'm not sure if I solved the issue but I have managed to get the network browsing working. After verifying that I didn't have a master browser conflict by using the nbtstat information I then reviewed the ipconfig /all details and noticed that I had no entries in the WINS primary or secondary fields so I manually entered each's machines IP address's in the tcp/ip advanced settings for the WINS tab. After stopping and restarting the WIN service I could then browse to each and every machine by using the network neighborhood, from every machine. The access time seemed to be a little slower, at times almost feeling as though operations were going to time out but they did populate on the screen and worked properly for file transfer, .... Hop this helps someone else as the corrective information on this type of issue is very scarce. Rgds

I give up, time to switch to Linux. I've been testing it on another box and these types of windows issues is what is making my decision to switch easier. FAR too much time is wasted on windows chasing elusive issues.

ok, now I'm confused. The machines that can't get the network list aren't trying to fight for master status as the nbtstat -n doesn't indicate master. Below is the event viewer error message: The browser service has failed to retrieve the backup list too many times on transport \Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{C9A0CEAA-F0B0-4A9E-B87A-DDA5C2E9B262}. The backup browser is stopping. for the browser service and event ID 8032 Also, the ipconfig /all results in an unknown node type. Any suggestions are really welcome. Thanks

I'm just not sure why the browser lists aren't being shared as each machine takes over as master. I'll post the event viewer log when I get home but I'm also going to try disabling the browser service on all but one machine and see if the list gets shared in the event they are fighting over who is master. Even before I do that I'll review each machine's response to the nbtstat -n to verify they are all trying to become master. Thanks

Any resolution for this? I am experiencing the same issues. I have a small network (5 machines running XP) and it appears the server list from the master browser isn't shared around the network. I can ping and directly address the machines but I can't browse out on the network unless I'm doing so from the first machine to boot on the network. The first machine to boot can "see" all of the other machines in the workgroup. This is something that has just recently occured as I used to be able to browse all machines just fine. I don't know exactly when the problem began because I was using previously created shortcuts and within the last month or two tried to browse out and suddenly couldn't. i can see in the event log the browser service timing out trying to get the network list ?? Thanks in advance.