>>>Actually, if there is a PDC, it will always be the browse master. In 95 the browse master selection is in the file and print sharing section. I agree that should be disabled. It could also be a flaky: card, cable, hub or even damaged dll on the workstation causing the problem.
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>>What's a PDC? Another TLA?
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>>Cabling and other is surely not the matter, we reproduced the behavior in our office. The cables are brand new and have been thoroughly measured and tested; besides, there's the 15 year guarantee we give on them (to ourselves, too), and, anyway, any other communication in the network works excellent.
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>NT Talk - Primary Domain Controller. I thought you might have been operating in a domain as opposed to a workgroup. If you're not, PDCs and BDCs (backup) don't matter.

Oh, that. We've just installed our first NT Server, but at the time we noticed this, it wasn't operational yet. Anyway, no NT in the first case, so this will be the browse master issue.