Ryan Duff said: > and did a service smb restart and went to work and when I came home > everything had fiextd itself and I can now browse from my windows machine. > > The moral of the story is that if you can't browse your network, you have 2 > or more machines fighting to be PCD. > You seem to be confusing the roles of the Primary Domain Controller (PDC) or Master Browser (MB). The PDC is the server that provides user and resource authentication for a given domain. The MB is the server that checks the NetBIOS network looking for hosts. It is the tool responsible for making sure that pretty icons appear when double-clicking on Network Neighbourhood. Your problem stems from the fact that Windows XP was trying to dominate your network. Both solutions suggested would fix the problem. -- Luc Bouchard Nepean, ON luc@xxxxxxxxxxx
