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Wednesday, April 25, 2018 4:20 PM
I am well aware of the issues last year with removal of the master browser and have been running an old Win XP machine on my network as a work around. I just ran NetBScanner for no special reason and it showed a Windows 10 PC as the master browser. Previously it always indicated the Win XP machine.
Has Microsoft put it back recently or is there some other explanation? The Windows 10 build is 16299.371.
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Thursday, April 26, 2018 1:29 AM | 2 votes
No, no indication shows that Microsoft will put Master browser back recently
Microsoft choose not to upgrade the Computer Browser service when deprecating SMB v1.0. Microsoft decided we don't need Computer Browsing anymore and can work around not having it.
The Computer Browser service relies on the SMBv1 protocol to populate the Windows Explorer Network node (also known as "Network Neighborhood"). This legacy protocol is long deprecated, doesn't route, and has limited security. Because the service cannot function without SMBv1, it is removed at the same time.
However, if you still have to use the Explorer Network in home and small business workgroup environments to locate Windows-based computers, you can follow these steps on your Windows-based computers that no longer use SMBv1:
Start the "Function Discovery Provider Host" and "Function Discovery Resource Publication" services, and then set them to Automatic (Delayed Start).
When you open Explorer Network, enable network discovery when you are prompted.
All Windows devices within that subnet that have these settings will now appear in Network for browsing. This uses the WS-DISCOVERY protocol. Contact your other vendors and manufacturers if their devices still don't appear in this browse list after the Windows devices appear. It is possible they have this protocol disabled or that they support only SMBv1.
Sources:
Explorer Network Browsing
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Thursday, April 26, 2018 7:35 AM
To communicate with XP from Windows 10, you must enable SMB 1.0 in Windows 10. Windows XP does not have network discovery.
If you enable SMB 1.0 in Windows 10 the computer browser service will be available again. It was SMB 1.0 which was removed, not the computer browser service.
If you really want to have XP as your master browser you can disable the computer browser service in Windows 10 from Computer Management>Services.
Bill