{"id":217,"date":"2022-09-26T14:55:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T14:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/?p=217"},"modified":"2022-09-26T15:01:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T15:01:48","slug":"finding-the-master-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/26\/finding-the-master-browser\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding the Master Browser"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Larger workgroups can be a chore.  For example, finding the Master Browser&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a batch\/script for finding the Master Browser on your workgroup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>TITLE Browse Master Finder\nColor 18\ncls\n@ECHO OFF\nECHO This script is property of Mike. This script is to discover Browse Master. \nECHO. \nECHO.  \nfor \/f \"delims=\\= \" %%C in ('net view ^| find \"\\\\\"') do @echo -Checking %%C &amp;&amp; @nbtstat -a %%C | find \"MSBROWSE\"\npause<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Disable the Master Browser<\/strong><br><strong>Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 \/ Server 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2016<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Open the registry editor.<\/li><li>Browse to HKey_Local_Machine\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\Browser\\Parameters.<\/li><li>Edit the key MaintainServerList to read FALSE<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Windows XP \/ Server 2003<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Open the registry editor.<\/li><li>Browse to HKey_Local_Machine\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\Browser\\Parameters.<\/li><li>Edit the key IsDomainMaster to read FALSE and the key MaintainServerList to read NO<\/li><li>On the server computer, the value for IsDomainMaster should be TRUE and for MaintainServerList should be YES.<br>Reboot all machines, bringing up the server computer (now the Master Browser) first.<br>Microsoft states that it could take as long as 48 minutes for the Master Browser to recognize new computers. However, on a network where broadcasts and network traffic are within normal parameters, the time should be about half of that, or 24 minutes.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>NIRSoft has a nice utility that can be useful as well. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nirsoft.net\/utils\/netbios_scanner.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nirsoft.net\/utils\/netbios_scanner.html\">NetBScanner<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>Larger workgroups can be a chore. For example, finding the Master Browser&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here is a batch\/script for finding the Master Browser on your workgroup.<\/p>\n<p> TITLE Browse Master Finder Color 18 cls @ECHO OFF ECHO This script is property of Mike. This script is to discover Browse Master. ECHO. ECHO. for \/f &#8220;delims=\\= &#8221; %%C [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it","category-windows","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}