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Duplications in network
Wireless network links three PCs:
Laptop Win7 Pro Downstairs Win7 Home Upstairs XP but this displays today as Laptop Win7 Pro Laptop Win7 Pro Laptop Win7 Pro: User Downstairs Win7 Home Downstairs Win7 Home Upstairs XP Upstairs XP (and I have access to Upstairs but not Downstairs . . .) Does this mean anything in particular? -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ontario, Canada) |
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Duplications in network
In message , Don P writes:
Wireless network links three PCs: Laptop Win7 Pro Downstairs Win7 Home Upstairs XP but this displays today as Laptop Win7 Pro Laptop Win7 Pro Laptop Win7 Pro: User Downstairs Win7 Home Downstairs Win7 Home Upstairs XP Upstairs XP (and I have access to Upstairs but not Downstairs . . .) Does this mean anything in particular? I've no idea, but it might help others to help: it displays today as the above _on what_ - the laptop, the XP, or both? -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Never be led astray onto the path of virtue. |
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Duplications in network
Don P wrote:
Wireless network links three PCs: Laptop Win7 Pro Downstairs Win7 Home Upstairs XP but this displays today as Laptop Win7 Pro Laptop Win7 Pro Laptop Win7 Pro: User Downstairs Win7 Home Downstairs Win7 Home Upstairs XP Upstairs XP (and I have access to Upstairs but not Downstairs . . .) Does this mean anything in particular? How many networks are you running ? Are you using Ethernet and Wifi at the same time ? Are you a user who has followed a tutorial to use both HomeGroup and WorkGroup at the same time ? Windows 7 can use LLDP (link layer discovery protocol) to build a GUI network map. The GUI portion was removed from Windows 8 and 10, so only Win7 has this. I don't think it would add any value in this case, as legacy subsystems are doing the network detection you see currently. I have no idea what this might display, or whether it would give any hints. AFAIK, this subsystem has no impact on regular network operation. LLDP is not used to actually find things to file share with, for example. https://www.petri.com/create-network-map-windows-7 Another possibility, is DHCP gave out a new set of IP addresses (lease renewal). Maybe you reset a router to defaults and set it up again ? The Windows OSes "remember" previous discovered machines for a short time. And that's the most worrisome part about the Windows networking, is the insistence on saving "stale" detections. When I change OS drives on my second active computer, I will find the old identifier still in my Network Neighborhood. If I were to turn off all the computers, and let them discover from scratch, that could clean it up. Paul |
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On 07/11/2017 3:09 PM, Paul wrote:
Don P wrote: Wireless network links three PCs: Laptop Win7 Pro Downstairs Win7 Home Upstairs XP but this displays today as Laptop Win7 Pro Laptop Win7 Pro Laptop Win7 Pro: User Downstairs Win7 Home Downstairs Win7 Home Upstairs XP Upstairs XP (and I have access to Upstairs but not Downstairs . . .) Does this mean anything in particular? How many networks are you running ? Are you using Ethernet and Wifi at the same time ? Are you a user who has followed a tutorial to use both HomeGroup and WorkGroup at the same time ? Windows 7 can use LLDP (link layer discovery protocol) to build a GUI network map. The GUI portion was removed from Windows 8 and 10, so only Win7 has this. I don't think it would add any value in this case, as legacy subsystems are doing the network detection you see currently. I have no idea what this might display, or whether it would give any hints. AFAIK, this subsystem has no impact on regular network operation. LLDP is not used to actually find things to file share with, for example. https://www.petri.com/create-network-map-windows-7 Another possibility, is DHCP gave out a new set of IP addresses (lease renewal). Maybe you reset a router to defaults and set it up again ? The Windows OSes "remember" previous discovered machines for a short time. And that's the most worrisome part about the Windows networking, is the insistence on saving "stale" detections. When I change OS drives on my second active computer, I will find the old identifier still in my Network Neighborhood. If I were to turn off all the computers, and let them discover from scratch, that could clean it up. Paul P Many thanks, DP |
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