Network Neighborhood - PC's cant see it.

[NorthernBloke]

Our WAN has several LAN's with BDC on them.
Mainly running win 95, and so are using the workgroup option in network properties to group related PCs together.

on a random interval of 1-4 weeks one of the workgroups gets lost. Some NT servers can see 1 member of this workgroup, other NT Servers see none.

There are no reported name conflicts or IP address conflicts.
Is emptying the WINS Databases a go idea?
as the WINS is replicated do I need to empty all other Server databases?
Am I barking up the wrong tree?

[Sloef]

Can you still ping the computers or look for them using the "find computer" command ?
You should also check the browserfunction.

[Tiffie8]

Well my Northern friend,
We have a similar setup to what you described and a similar problem. My boss tells me that the reason is: when DHCP (I assume you're using DHCP) assigns new IPs, the WINS servers don't always get updated immediately and NETbios names appear 'lost'. Unless using a recommended utility,
I would personally not muck about with the WINS databases unless you're some sort of £300 per hour guru. For us the problem seems to sort itself given time. The worst bit is having to tolerate the endless phone calls from users wingeing.

Tiffie