master browser for the domain error?

[Bruck]

I recently purchased a brand new aluminum Powerbook G4. The computer name give is "AL" Recently i started having problems where my pc will not go online, i can see the router, i can do internal house file transfers but i can not get to the internet. If i restart windows it works again.

Event log shows this error:

The master browser has received a server announcement from the computer AL that believes that it is the master browser for the domain on transport NetBT_Tcpip_{172D2C0A-84E0-404D-8C44. The master browser is stopping or an election is being forced.
Any ideas if these two things are related and how to solve them?

p.s. these problems did not start the day i got/added the mac. However i have recently upgraded to 10.3 (the newer mac OS) and a few days after i did that, i this started happening... even log shows that this error has popped up every day starting on the 27th or october, however i upgraded to the new mac OS on the 25th of october.

 

[Bruck]

bump

 

[gunrunnerjohn]

This is the reason that in my Windows networks, I normally end up using NETBEUI.

 

[RedFox1]

The master browser allows things like your "network neighborhood", but shouldn't affect your ability to connect to the internet. That election it's talking about shouldn't be an issue.

Next time you find you can't browse the web, try opening a command prompt window and enter

ipconfig /renew

See if that solves the problem.

 

[mboy]

Originally posted by: gunrunnerjohn
This is the reason that in my Windows networks, I normally end up using NETBEUI.

Then you must not have large windows networks. NO offense of course.
Netbui sucks and is obsolete!

 

[gunrunnerjohn]

NETBEUI on this 10 machine network sends around 20-25 broadcasts a minute, not even a ripple in the pond. Yes, if you have many hundreds of machines, or even thousands, NETBEUI overhead starts eating into the network bandwidth. Since we're talking about workgroup LANs here with from 2-10 machines, this is a non-issue.

The plus part of using NETBEUI is that it solves the flaky Microsoft browser election scheme's weakness, namely that it sometimes just stops working for no apparent reason.