I have a home Windows XP (only) network - some machines XP Pro and some XP
Home.

All machines can get out to internet, and print. But one (and only one)
machine is unable to Browse the Network. It is XP Home. I noticed the
Computer Browser service is not running. If I try running the service, it
says The computer browser service started then stopped. The Event Viewer
just has informational messages that it started and stopped - no errors.
The server, workstation, and netbios helper services are all running.

The machine can PING the local browse master fine and in every other way
seems to be networked just fine. When other machines browse the network,
it is visible. (I checked which machine is the Browse master using
ntbstat -a. And the browse master is an always on, wired machine - best
one for browse master.) I can NET VIEW and NET USE from that machine fine
too (to any machine on the network, including the browse master) - but only
because I mapped it using LMHOST file. Before the LMHOST mapping, I could
not NET USE, though I could get to internet and other machines could NET USE
or NET VIEW it.

Any ideas why the Computer Browser service does not want to keep running ?
DOes it secretly write messages somewhere that might give me a hint, or is
there a VERBOSE option for it ? Thanks.