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... > > -- > John W. Colby > Colby Consulting > > Reality is what refuses to go away > when you do not believe in it > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/**mailman/listinfo/accessd<http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd> > > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.**com<http://www.databaseadvisors.com> > > >