A step that MS forgot to mention in the link is that they had selected “Network” from the bottom of the list on the left in file explorer. Lots of good stuff to be found there if you right click on it including network discovery. This setting enables the network responder service and allows your computer to be seen on a network.
Another thing i find useful is the streaming button in Windows media player. If you enable this it starts a service that turns your PC into media streaming server even when the rest of media player isnt running.
I think I should have mentioned that the network responder uses the link layer topology discovery protocol and its the same one used to get a network map. This protocol is not totally secure but its no worse than the NetBios naming service and all that master browser stuff. Anyway I use it and on a small Workgroup network I don’t see the harm.
Just for the record, Windows networking tries to resolve/discover local computer names in the following order 1) DNS, 2) LLTD, 3) NetBios Name Service. Its the last two that MS normally buggers about with.
Dwynehugh love everyone on here but agree there was no need to pull your comment out…..innocent and no different to what me and others have posted on different threads. Let’s just get back to “as we were”.
And Duke it is a fantastic country to explore and agree 100% football ain’t the right time.
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