Rdr - 8003

[Guest]

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I have Windows NT Server 4.0 (SP6a) computer. I received next message in the Event Log:
Source: Rdr
ID: 8003
The master browser has received a server announcement from the computer <other server> that belives that is the master browser for the domain on transport NwlnkNb. The master browser is stopping or an election is being forced.

What's the problem?

Michael S. Androsov
EXPOCENTR

 

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a Windows 2000 system is trying to take over the
network. Do you have Netware servers on the network?
If not, remove the netware protocol form all machines on
the network, that will solve the problem.
If you have netware, then on all win2k servers, do this
command NET STOP BROWSER

 

[Guest]

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Or the subnet mask is not correct. Make sure
the subnet mask on the PDC matches the
clients.

or there are routers forwarding broadcast packets:

8003 Browsing Errors with UDP Forwarding
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;135464

It is possible that a W2k machine is forcing a
browse election in an attempt to become the
master browser but stopping the browser
service only works until a reboot. Disabling
the comptuer browser service using the
services applet in the control panel might
be a better option.

"dlw" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> a Windows 2000 system is trying to take over the
> network. Do you have Netware servers on the network?
> If not, remove the netware protocol form all machines on
> the network, that will solve the problem.
> If you have netware, then on all win2k servers, do this
> command NET STOP BROWSER
>

 

[Calvin]

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Hi Michael,

this message is normal. It merely indiciates that your NT4 machine was the
browse master on the network. Another machine then joined the network that was
higher up the 'food chain' (eg: Win2k, Win XP or win2k3 server) They will
demand to be the network browse master, and do so by forcing an election on the
network, which they of course win ! (why does it sound like this function was
coded by a politican 🙂

Provided you are not getting lots of them, ignore them. Not everything that
appears in the event logs in neccessarily indicating a problem, quite a lot of
messages are merely advisories or 'informative'. The 8003 normally falls into
the catagory of an 'advisory' message, and no action need be taken. If you are
getting lots of 8003s, you may want to consider taking the advice provided on
other answers in this thread and consider investigating in detail or/and
consider disabling the browse function on the NT4 machine. There are
knowledgebase articles relating to how to do this correctly.

Calvin.