Problem with Master Browser – MRxSmb event ID 8003 problem

[marcin]

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Hello,

I have a problem which you’ve probably heard a lot of – master browser – I keep getting error – MRxSmb event ID 8003. Before deciding to ask for any ideas I spent day googling and trying to solve it. What I did:
1. I switched the computer browser service on PC which “belived that it was the master browser” but few minutes after I get the same error but from another PC (random).
2. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServic esBrowserParametersIsDomainMaster to TRUE – no joy – still getting the same error.
3. Restarted DC.
4. Additional info: there are 3 subnets in our network, WINS server (running on DC), there are many laptops machines (so wireless and Ethernet cards..).

No joy – I keep getting the same errors in DC log. I used browstat:
1. browstat.exe status:

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Status for domain UTT on transport DeviceNetBT_Tcpip_{ED0EF83B-C300-450C-9DE1-
83F51F365392}
Browsing is active on domain.
Master browser name is: UTT-DC1
Master browser is running build 3790
3 backup servers retrieved from master UTT-DC1
\UTT-FS0
\UTT-DC1
\UTT-FS04
There are 148 servers in domain UTT on transport DeviceNetBT_Tcpip_{ED0EF8
3B-C300-450C-9DE1-83F51F365392}
There are 1 domains in domain UTT on transport DeviceNetBT_Tcpip_{ED0EF83B
-C300-450C-9DE1-83F51F365392}

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The backup servers seems to be changing quite often – I don’t know if it should be like that.

2. What worries me if I use command “browstat status \UTT-DC1” I do not get a response:

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C:>Browstat.exe status \UTT-DC1

Status for domain \utt-dc1 on transport DeviceNetBT_Tcpip_{ED0EF83B-C300-450C-
9DE1-83F51F365392}
Browsing is NOT active on domain.
Master name cannot be determined from GetAdapterStatus.

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Any ideas what shall I do? I’ve read that I can use GP to switch off Computer Browser service on all PC. Shall I go for this option? What happens if there is no computer on different subnetwork with Computer Browser running – will I still be able to use all PCs in My Network Places?

Sorry for such a long post but I wanted to put as many details as possible.

Thank you for your help.

Marcin.

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