Find the Master Browser on a Windows 7 machine.

This command will let you find the master browser on a Windows 7 machine.  Obviously this should  be run in a command window.

for /f "delims=\= " %C in ('net view ^| find "\\"') do @echo -Checking %C && @nbtstat -a %C | find "MSBROWSE"

The master browser(s) will be displayed like this:

-Checking SOMESERVERNAME
    ..__MSBROWSE__.<01>  GROUP       Registered

If you have a server acting as a browser and it's not supposed to, you may want to change the following registry settings:


[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Browser]
"IsMasterBrowser"="False"
"MaintainServerList"="No"

You can find more information on Microsoft's website here: TechNet Specifying Browser Computers

*Note:  You may have to run this command more than once if a browser election is taking place.

*Note2:  If you came here because the other computers on the network are disappearing randomly, try disabling your "DNS Client" service and see if that helps.

*Note3:  If you are still having problems, see my post on disabling Bonjour.  It really seems to mess things up at times.