[AccessD] OK so Windows 7 has issues too

Charlotte Foust charlotte.foust at gmail.com
Sat Oct 29 12:55:58 CDT 2011


I don't know the answer, John, but it may be the version.  The home
versions of Windows seem to have all sorts of unexpected limitations on
networking and sharing, which is why I always run the Professional versions.

Charlotte Foust

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 8:22 PM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>wrote:

> :)
>
> Actually I am not sure where the problem lies.  I am trying to see all the
> machines on my network. This is a workgroup and everyone except my UnRaid
> Linux server (Tower) belong to the same workgroup.
>
> 1) In my 2008R2 server (Hyper-V server) I see 12 machines if you ignore
> the tsclient.  This includes Tower and three VMs.
>
> 2) In Azul (Windows 2008) I see 12 machines - same as 1 above.
>
> 3) In my new Windows 7 Home premium I see 7 machines.  Missing are Azul
> (Windows 2008), both HTPC machines (also Windows 7), one of my VMs (Windows
> 2003) and both windows xp machines.
>
> 4) In a Windows 7 Professional VM I see 7 machines.  Missing are the
> Windows 7 HTPCs and the two XP machines.
>
> I found something (very crude) that would find every IP address on the
> network and from my new laptop everything does show up, and I can ping
> everything but everything does not show in the network map.  Another PFM
> thing going on here.
>
> If I know the computer name I can remote desktop in to all of them (except
> the Windows 7 home machines of course) so everything is definitely out
> there, just not visible.  that kinda sucks because I often share and push
> files around to machines based on the shares.
>
> That just made me wonder if the machines that are missing might not have
> any shares or something. But why do both Server 2008 machines (on opposite
> physical ends of the network) see every single machine on the network, but
> the Windows 7 Home laptop plugged into the same switch as the Hyper-v
> Server 2008 machine only show 7 machines?
>
> Sing it, with gusto..,.
>
> This is the stuff,
> That drives me crazy...
>
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