WORK AROUND BROWSE MASTER PROBLEMS

One problem that occurs when browsing the network in a Windows 9x environment is not being able to determine the correct Browse Master. When you expand Entire Network in Network Neighborhood, an error message may appear if your NT PDC is on a different subnet. For example:

Unable to browse the network.

The network is not accessible.

For more information, look in the Help Index at the topic "Network Troubleshooter."

Or, if you try the NET VIEW command at the command line, you may see the following error:

Error 6118: The computer(s) sharing resources in this workgroup cannot be located.

This occurs because of an update to Vserver.vxd in Win98, which is also available as an update to Win95—so you may encounter the problem on both platforms. However, this occurs only if the Browse Master on the subnet is not an NT computer.

Microsoft offers a hot fix that resolves the problem by replacing the Vredir.vxd file. For more information, see Microsoft Knowledge Base article Q238853.

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q238/8/53.asp

In addition, Microsoft suggests ways to work around the problem, including:

Move an NT computer into the subnet that's problematic. This computer will become the Browse Master, and browsing should then function properly.

When an NT computer is already in the subnet, make sure the Windows 9x computers are in the same workgroup as the NT computer, as each workgroup has its own Browse Master.

If you only have Windows 9x computers available, ensure that the oneconfigured as the Browse Master is configured for share-level access rather than user-level access. Change the configuration within the Access Control tab of the Network Applet in Control Panel.