I used the command line variants to display the network conditions as seen by three of the computers on my LAN plus I have some puzzling results from my DNS-323. As I said, everything used to work with the Windows networking with my DGL-4500 and when I switched to the DIR-857, it all went to h__ll. Maybe that's where Windows networking really belongs - but you have to give the devil his due when you use his technology.
In any case knock yourself out:
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* This first segment of log was output from a
* computer called ASUS001 in workgroup PATRICK
* Note that ASUS001 could not detect any other
* computers in my LAN tonight. It started behaving this
* way after I installed the DIR-857... ASUS001 is wirelessly
* connected using a D-Link DAP-1522. I have good signal
* strength, and good connectivity (file transfers, HTTP, etc.),
* it's just the network browser doesn't work right.
* BTW: I disabled the Master Scheduler service on
* this computer because I didn't want multiple
* of these running on my network. ASUS001 does
* not find the master scheduler service running
* on the computer called BOZEN (an HP Windows
* Home Server - Bozen WHS). When this happens, it
* liked to start its own master scheduler service
* with sometimes very confusing consequences.
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Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\Documents and Settings\Tony>nbtstat -n
Local Area Connection 6:
Node IpAddress: [192.168.81.61] Scope Id: []
NetBIOS Local Name Table
Name Type Status
---------------------------------------------
ASUS001 <00> UNIQUE Registered
PATRICK <00> GROUP Registered
ASUS001 <20> UNIQUE Registered
PATRICK <1E> GROUP Registered
C:\Documents and Settings\Tony>net view
System error 6118 has occurred.
The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available
C:\Documents and Settings\Tony>nbtstat -c
Local Area Connection 6:
Node IpAddress: [192.168.81.61] Scope Id: []
No names in cache
C:\Documents and Settings\Tony> exit
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* This second segment of the log was output from a
* computer called BOZEN also in workgroup PATRICK.
* It is an HP Windows Home Server and is running the
* master scheduler service just like MicroSoft doc says
* it should be doing. Note that it was not able
* to register all the computers on my LAN. Note that
* the computer called ASUS001 does not appear!
* Neither does my D-Link DNS-323 NAS... Not cool!
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Microsoft Windows [Version 5.2.3790]
(C) Copyright 1985-2003 Microsoft Corp.
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>nbtstat -n
Local Area Connection:
Node IpAddress: [192.168.81.103] Scope Id: []
NetBIOS Local Name Table
Name Type Status
---------------------------------------------
BOZEN <00> UNIQUE Registered
PATRICK <00> GROUP Registered
BOZEN <20> UNIQUE Registered
PATRICK <1E> GROUP Registered
PATRICK <1D> UNIQUE Registered
..__MSBROWSE__.<01> GROUP Registered
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>net view
Server Name Remark
-----------------------------------------------------
\\ACER007 Tony's Acer Aspire One netbook
\\BOZEN Bozen WHS
\\LIBRARY HP Pavilion in Office area
The command completed successfully.
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>exit
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* This third segment of log was output from a computer
* called LIBRARY in workgroup PATRICK. It was able to find
* the Master Scheduler service running on BOZEN and at least
* some of the computers in my LAN show up. (The same ones
* that BOZEN found - as expected.)
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Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6002]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\Tony>nbtstat -n
Local Area Connection:
Node IpAddress: [192.168.81.101] Scope Id: []
NetBIOS Local Name Table
Name Type Status
---------------------------------------------
LIBRARY <00> UNIQUE Registered
PATRICK <00> GROUP Registered
PATRICK <1E> GROUP Registered
LIBRARY <20> UNIQUE Registered
No names in cache
C:\Users\Tony>net view
Server Name Remark
-----------------------------------------------------
\\ACER007 Tony's Acer Aspire One netbook
\\BOZEN Bozen WHS
\\LIBRARY HP Pavilion in Office area
The command completed successfully.
C:\Documents and Settings\Tony> exit
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* This fourth log segment uses remote nbtstat and remote net view
* commands to interogate a computer called BLITZEN also in
* workgroup PATRICK. BLITZEN is a D-Link DNS-323 NAS.
* Although, it can still be referenced by it's IP address, it does
* not appear in the network neighbourhood (ie: a general
* net view command without identifying a host - as demonstrated above).
* Note that I cannot now access the NBT table on BLITZEN - this used to work
* with the DGL-4500... BTW: Blitzen is hard wired to the router (not wireless).
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Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6002]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\Tony>ping blitzen.ici
Pinging Blitzen.ici [192.168.81.104] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.81.104: bytes=32 time=2ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.81.104: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.81.104: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.81.104: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Ping statistics for 192.168.81.104:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 2ms, Average = 0ms
C:\Users\Tony>nbtstat -A 192.168.81.104
Local Area Connection:
Node IpAddress: [192.168.81.101] Scope Id: []
Host not found.
C:\Users\Tony>net view \\192.168.81.104
Shared resources at \\192.168.81.104
Dlink DNS-323
Share name Type Used as Comment
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backups Disk
BT Disk
lp Print USB Printer
Media Disk Media - read only
Media-1 Disk Media - RW
Public Disk
Tony Disk
Volume_1 Disk
web_page Disk Enter Our Web Page Setting
The command completed successfully.
C:\Users\Tony> exit
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