For each name in the list, type the following command: nbtstat -a COMPUTER-NAME.Note that the format is \\COMPUTER-NAME like I talked about above.
The “fun” way of doing this is with DOS commands. Now, what happens when you have Network Neighborhood turning up blank on you sporadically, or possibly missing several of the computers on your LAN from time to time? Well, in that case, you need to determine who is the Master Browser so that you can narrow down the problem to one computer and see if maybe you need an updated ethernet driver, or there are firewall problems, or whatever. As I understand it, there are one or more “Backup Master Browsers” waiting in the wings, but we’ll ignore that for now.
At that point, all the computers on the LAN get together again and they hold another election. Of course, you may ask: What happens when the computer that is the Master Browser gets shut down when, say, I go to bed? In that case, you will find that your Network Neighborhood may not work so well. Once a computer is elected, it will keep track of what machines are connected to the LAN by more or less sending messages to say, “Yo! You still there?” This election depends on a number of factors, but for the purposes of this discussion, we just have to know that all the computers get together and vote on who will be the Master Browser on the LAN. What happens is that all the computers on your LAN hold an “election”. This is where the Master Browser schtick comes into play. Since we’re only dealing with a workgroup, and there is no domain server, there is no computer to keep track of what machines are active on the network. So, what happens is that each computer on the LAN must talk to the others. In our example above, the computer name is BALTHAZAR, but the IP address might be 192.168.0.27. The name is what you call your computer so you and your friends don’t have to remember the IP address. Each computer has an IP address, like 192.168.0.27, and also a name. On a local area network (LAN), each computer “talks” to the others.
And a grumpy Network Neighborhood is exactly the reason why sometimes, you need to find out which computer is the Master Browser. This is handy to know if Network Neighborhood is not working. So, if you want to go to the computer called BALTHAZAR, you’d type:Īnd hit enter.
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The other method you can use is to open Windows Explorer (keyboard shortcut: Win-E) and in the location/address bar, type: If you want to see the files on another machine, you just go to Network Neighborhood, click, et voila! When you have a LAN set up running Windows machines, each machine can see all the others in Network Neighborhood (or just “Network” in Vista). Here’s a little problem that drove me crazy: How do you determine the Master Browser in a Windows Workgroup?įirst of all, lemme explain a bit about how a workgroup works.
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