Overview

GFI LanGuard is failing to retrieve the computers within a workgroup when using the Enumerate Computers feature.

Environment

GFI LanGuard

The enumeration of computers fails because no computer wins the browser service election.

Technical Details:

When running Windows in a peer-to-peer workgroup, one system is responsible for creating and keeping a list of all computers in the workgroup that have resources to share and display that list in My Network Places.
- This computer is called the Master Browser (or Preferred Master Browser) and it reaches its role by winning the browser service election.
Further information on the election process can be found on this Microsoft article: A workstation may become the master browser instead of a Windows Server 2003-based member server

Ensure that the GFI LanGuard machine is the Master Browser:

To check if the server has been promoted as Master Browser server, run the following command from the command line:
```
NBTSTAT –A  %ServerIP% 
```
Replace %ServerIP% with the IP address of the server you are checking.
For example:
```
NBTSTAT –A  192.168.1.100
```
To determine if the server has been promoted as a Master Browser, verify if the ..__MSBROWSE__ string appears in the names list when executing the command above.

NOTES:
- The browstat status command is a utility provided by Microsoft in the Resource Utility kit that can also be used to determine the currently selected Master Browser server and if browsing is active or not.
- On Windows Server 2008 or newer, the Computer Browser Service is disabled by default.