Environment; Domain DC are 2003 with SP computers a mix of XP SP3 and Vista SP1. I have 2 subnets: servers and some computers are all with Static IPs in the subnet 192.168.2.X I have a few computers that are DHCP in subnet 192.168.1.x I have a user with a Vista Sp1 laptop on the 192.168.1.x and a Vista SP1 desktop on subnet 192.168.2.x Brows list is the issue, He cannot see his laptop on the brows list from his Desktop. His desk top can ping the laptop with the DNS name and if you do a search from the desktop for the laptop it shows up. You can do net view by laptop name and it displays all the shares and there is no access issue. Basically the laptop is not automatically showing up in the network brows list, any ideas?

Hi, Thank you for your post. Could you please tell me which changes have been made on the computers recently before the issue occurred? If everything worked before, a quick solution is to restore the system back to the previous status when the issue didnt occur with System Restore. (Note: Performing a system restore may cause the loss of the current system settings; therefore, before doing this, please make sure that the system restore point is not too old and set a restore point for the current status.) Based on my research, I would like to provide the following suggestions: 1. Please ensure that all the updates have been applied on all of the computers. 2. Please make sure that the Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) has been enabled on the Windows Vista computer . 3. Please ensure "Network Discovery" is turned on in "Network and Sharing Center". Regarding the symptom that Windows Vista cannot see some other computers, it is related to browser service and I will share the following information with you: Just for your reference, in Windows network environment, there is a service called "browser service" which is responsible for maintaining a "browser list" which is a list of computers in the network/domain. This is designed for performance purposes: every system does not need to hold a computer list for itself. Instead, the Master Browsers in the network/domain collect the computer list for the whole network, and provide the list to other systems. Therefore we can see the computer list in "Network" because the system can get the list from the master browser of that network/domain. Actually, as the "browser service" is a legacy service, if it is not need to browse the whole network computers in "Network", we can ignore safely this event. For more information regarding browser service, please refer to: TCP/IP Fundamentals for Microsoft Windows (See "Appendix C Computer Browser Service", Page 518) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c76296fd-61c9-4079-a0bb-582bca4a846f&displaylang=en 188305 Troubleshooting the Microsoft Computer Browser Service http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;188305 Hope this helps.Thanks.Nicholas Li - MSFT