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October 23, 2000 04:23 PM

Browstat

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Mark Minasi

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A command-line tool for managing the browser

The Browser network service, which you see through its Network Neighborhood interface, must have seemed a good idea at one time, but sometimes its unreliability makes Browser seem more like a bug than a feature. Whenever Browser gives a user fits, the network administrator needs to try to figure out why it's misbehaving. But what tools does an administrator have to monitor Browser's behavior? In a word, the answer is Browstat.

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In This Old Resource Kit: "Browstat" (November 2000), Mark Minasi states, "After you've typed the transport name a few times, you'll wonder, as I did, why Browstat's author didn't either include wildcard support for transport names or drop the need to type the transport for single-protocol environments." I ran into this problem a few months ago. I discovered that with the Windows 2000 version of Browstat, you don't have to type in the Win2K long transport name. All you have to do is type in the transport number: browstat vw 1 domain name. Even this command works: browstat vw 1.

Mark Frieden 12/13/2000 11:29:32 AM

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