Ryan Duff said:
and did a service smb restart and went to work and when I came homeYou seem to be confusing the roles of the Primary Domain Controller (PDC) or Master
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.
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.
My bad. I was thinking of going to bed when I typed that. To fix my previous statement:
"The moral of the story is that if you can't browse your network, you have 2 or more machines fighting to be Master Browser."
Ryan
