How do I force a browser election?

John J. LeMay Jr.
1999-09-17T20:01:39Z

With the help of the resource kit util "browstat" (browstst.exe) like
so:

browstat elect <transport> <domain>

"Transport" is normally NetBT for NetBIOS over TCP/IP. To determine
your
transport use:

net config rdr

Transport is displayed on line marked "Workstation active on" and in
the
format:

Transport_NIC (mac address of adapter)

on my station this looks like:

Workstation active on                NetBT_CpqNF31 (00805FBED7A4)

Where the transport is NetBT, the nic is CpqNF31, and my mac address is
displayed in parantheses. (sp?)

Hope this helps!

John J. LeMay Jr.
NJMC LLC.
http://www.njmc.com



On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Steve Litt wrote:

> I can force a browser election with the Win98 command:
>
> net view /workgroup:workgroupname
>
> However, that does not work on NT (and I haven't tried it on W95). What
I'd
> really like is a command from the Linux command line to force the election.
> I've looked everywhere and can't find it. For my purposes having
preferred
> master=yes and restarting Samba is not an option.
>
> Does anyone know how to force a browser election from the Linux command
line?
> Does anyone know how to force a browser election from the NT command line?
>
> Thanks
>
> Steve
>
> Steve Litt
> Webmaster, Troubleshooters.Com
> http://www.troubleshooters.com
> slitt@troubleshooters.com
>
>