10 days ago we shutdown our servers for maintenance and when we boot them, we start receiving master browser errors and network loss, Event ID 8021 and 8032. there are there backup browser server on the network now and master browser is keep changing... workgroup network, 5 servers 2003 r2 and 28 windows xp and windows 7 clients. can anyone help?

The browser service always takes a while to settle down after a restart. And which machine gets the master browser role is pretty random if you don't have a domain. The basic browser troubleshooter (KB188305) assumes that you have a domain structure. Bill

Hi Bill, Thank you for your reply, is there any way of stoping the server to being backup browser and stop the election? as the servers are in different cities and they are connected to the same subnet (through VPN). and keep getting errors on random machines about master browser, and its been more than 10 days, and i m still getting errors that election is started. how long usually it takes settle down?

Hi, Thank you for the post. Please stop and disable Computer Browser service on your multihomed servers. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/135404 If there are more inquiries on this issue, please feel free to let us know. RegardsRick Tan TechNet Community Support