From: "Frank Haber" 

for completeness, the answers from a Microsoft newsgroup.  You can't use
the new console, I think, without a PDC, but the old commandline BROWSTAT,
which I'd forgotten, has an update in the archive that can detect builds
through XP 2600 and reliably detect the browsemaster (which is almost
always the XP machine, which of course can enforce the ten-connection
limit, which is the way of the world.)  NBTSTAT is useful when BROWSTAT
can't find the nooks and crannies (different workgroups?  certainly
different DCs).

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In the unusual circumstance where 8 of 11 peeer machines are WFWG 3.11 boxes

with only NETBEUI installed (and one 98SE, and one XP Pro SP2 machine (with

TCP, of course, and the XP unsupported NETBEUI))....

Is the ten-machine limit enforced? By the browsemaster? Remind me whether

there's a utility to quickly detect the current browsemaster over NETBIOS?

The eleventh machine seems always to knock another off Network

Neighborhood/Machines_near_me on 98 and XP. Everything remains accessible via

NET blahblah \\UNCNAME.

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Frank,

The limit is on the number of inbound connections, including all protocols and

transports. It's not limited to NetBEUI. Fortunately, almost all protocols and

transports used by a single computer count as only one connection.

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=314882

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Cheers,

Chuck

Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

My email is AT DOT

actual address pchuck sonic net.

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Try this:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;818092

Regards,

TimH

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