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(When Win7 'i5' shows up on other computers' Network list, its discovery method is NetBIOS).

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Or, said another way, the Windows 10 computer is only showing computers whose Discovery Method is WSD. The Windows 10 computer does not show 'i5'

#Lanscan windows 8 pro#

Windows 7 Pro (2 of these) 'Intel64' and 'i5'Įither the other Windows 7 machine 'Intel64' or 'WIN8' appear to win the polling to be Master Browser.Īll computers show all of the computers in their Network list, except one. Well, today I find that the problem is happening on my own little office network: A flush of the gateway arp cache gets it done quickly. Interesting that this happens quickly going to the secondary but not so quickly when going back to the primary. We turn off the primary and then turn on the secondary. I have a backup (secondary) system that contains the same IP address as the primary system. But even so, it could be some number of minutes in some cases. compared to the Master Browser settling times.

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I guess, but I believe the settling time is quite short - to update ARP caches, etc. I guess your concern about DHCP is that if the IP addresses get scrambled re: their assignments then it takes some time for the network to settle down. But this is very old information and I don't see those old protocols showing up on Windows computers any more (installed on the NIC).Īnyway I'm still not understanding what's going on in this particular network. It's as if each protocol creates its own workgroup but with the same workgroup name. I have also seen 'split lists' if there are multiple protocols running. Rebooting all the computers can help is something that I've observed, can't prove and rarely would do. if not it's close)) that all add up to 45 minutes worst case. There are a couple of 20-minute timeouts (I believe that's the number. What would you do to light-handedly stabilize the network list in a case like this?ĭave Baldwin: Actually, I believe it can take up to 45 minutes for the list to populate. What might you attribute the changing Network list in the case of that one computer that shows 'Server' some of the time? Yet, I don't normally associate those things with the Network list unless a computer is sharing nothing at all?

I have not reviewed all the file sharing and permissions and network setup on all the computers. I attribute this to the lack of consistency in packet arrival in such situations (re: which NIC)). one wired and one wireless on the same subnet. (For example, other places I've seen short lists from a Master Browser if the Master Browser computer had 2 NICs e.g. I will admit that I've not fully investigated this system. So, my desire is to stabilize the network list across all the computers to avoid frustration amongst the staff - without investing in changing the network approach to AD (for example) and without launching a major project. The staff doesn't care about those things. This is independent of *HOW* computers get on the list be it WSD or NetBIOS. This is a *very* typical small office situation. (In some special cases we are forced to use IP addresses but this isn't one of those). It's not good for the office staff to not find computers on the network list because that's how they approach accessing things. Those are just observations which may help in addressing this question / objective. (Yet shares on this computer are reachable using its name as above).Īlso, LANScan shows the WDM圜loud as the Master Browser. But this seemed to be transient.ĥ) Running LANScan, the computer 'Server' does not show up. When I ran \Server on this computer it opened right away and eventually 'Server' showed up on the network list. This is also confusing the office staff.Ĥ) Looking at a third computer (Windows 10), only two computers were in 'Network' - instead of the normal 6 or 7. That drives me nuts because obviously name service is working and, yet, the computer didn't show up on the network. the network shows up as a Workgroup called WORKGROUP as is typical in peer-to-peer networks.Ģ) There is a M圜loud (Ethernet connected) on the network.ģ) Looking at two of the computers on the network, 'Server' was not listed. That would match other offices of the same small company. I don't believe that any other server functions are in use. The Windows Server OS is required by the app. From my experience, the only things that makes this computer a server are: I observed two things that surprised me:ġ) There is a computer named 'Server'. In line with the question linked above, I found computers 'discovered' by WSD and NetBIOS.

So maybe this question is premature and I'm sure that it echoes questions I've asked in the past. I just left a site today that I had not worked with before.