On Sunday, June 29, 1997 9:36 PM, Denys Beauchemin
[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] wrote:

> Bottom line, keep the protocols used to a minimum.  If you do not
> need
> NetBeui, dump it.  If you do not need IPX/SPX, dump it also.  Keep
> only one
> protocol, TCP/IP.  Set up DHCP or BOOTP with DNS or WINS and live
> long and
> prosper.

Absolutely - I can't agree more...but...

> One last thing, if you have Windows NT servers on the network,
> disable
> browser capabilities on you Windows 95 workstations.  If left on, I
> have
> seen a situation where the network gets confused about who is the
> master
> browser, and elections are forced needlessly.

One thing I found with my testing with Samba/iX --- Windows NT Server
will announce an election value of 32.  Windows 95 announce a value
of 1 or 2 (depending on the build).  In a normal configuration,
unless this value is modified on the Win95 workstation, NT Server
will win all elections - again, in the normal, vanilla, WinNT
network.  I have seen situations where the value is changed, and the
server starts yielding to the workstations - which should not be.

Cheers --

Joe

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