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"Yousuf Khan" <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> snip
> Actually, I already did try to disable the Homegroups. I'd see a
> computer on the Workgroup after several minutes, even though the
> computers are pingable to each other, and I can directly access the
> machines by using their absolute network names, such as
> "\\machine1\folder1", or "\\machine2\printer1", even before they were
> visible to the Seven machine's network neighbourhood.
Oh...Network Neighborhood, or actually, My Network Places, or just
Network in Win 7. I often just open Windows Explorer, click the + sign
next to it to expand, click the + next to Entire Network, then the +
next to Microsoft Windows Network, and it shows the Workgroups and
computers. However, if I do just click My Network Places (or Network in
Win 7), the shared folders are all there.
>
> So I thought that maybe disabling Homegroups would aid in discovering
> Workgroups sooner. After I disabled the Homegroups, I couldn't see the
> other machines at all, and even the local machine own name wouldn't
> show up in the list. So I re-enabled the Homegroups, and all of a
> sudden the machines in the Workgroup all showed up at once! It's
> confusingly weird, not sure what's going on here.
That's odd. As I said, I don't have a Homegroup set up at all, and my
Workgroups appear just as in other Windows versions.
>
> Prior to this Seven install, I used to notice from the event logs that
> my XP workgroup machines used to force a lot of master browser
> elections between each other (i.e. source MRxSmb, event id 8003)
> constantly. On some days there would be one such event every couple of
> hours or less. Other times, it wouldn't have an issue for several days
> in a row.
If you google: event id 8003 mrxsmb you will find a lot of opinions on
the issue. I'd ask in a networking forum.
>
> Do Homegroups work in this same way? That is do they elect each other
> to be masters and servants?
I really don't know, as I do not use it and have no plans to use it.
Perhaps someone in the Win 7 forums has more info:
http://www.sevenforums.com/
news:4b837b41$1@news.bnb-lp.com...
> snip
> Actually, I already did try to disable the Homegroups. I'd see a
> computer on the Workgroup after several minutes, even though the
> computers are pingable to each other, and I can directly access the
> machines by using their absolute network names, such as
> "\\machine1\folder1", or "\\machine2\printer1", even before they were
> visible to the Seven machine's network neighbourhood.
Oh...Network Neighborhood, or actually, My Network Places, or just
Network in Win 7. I often just open Windows Explorer, click the + sign
next to it to expand, click the + next to Entire Network, then the +
next to Microsoft Windows Network, and it shows the Workgroups and
computers. However, if I do just click My Network Places (or Network in
Win 7), the shared folders are all there.
>
> So I thought that maybe disabling Homegroups would aid in discovering
> Workgroups sooner. After I disabled the Homegroups, I couldn't see the
> other machines at all, and even the local machine own name wouldn't
> show up in the list. So I re-enabled the Homegroups, and all of a
> sudden the machines in the Workgroup all showed up at once! It's
> confusingly weird, not sure what's going on here.
That's odd. As I said, I don't have a Homegroup set up at all, and my
Workgroups appear just as in other Windows versions.
>
> Prior to this Seven install, I used to notice from the event logs that
> my XP workgroup machines used to force a lot of master browser
> elections between each other (i.e. source MRxSmb, event id 8003)
> constantly. On some days there would be one such event every couple of
> hours or less. Other times, it wouldn't have an issue for several days
> in a row.
If you google: event id 8003 mrxsmb you will find a lot of opinions on
the issue. I'd ask in a networking forum.
>
> Do Homegroups work in this same way? That is do they elect each other
> to be masters and servants?
I really don't know, as I do not use it and have no plans to use it.
Perhaps someone in the Win 7 forums has more info:
http://www.sevenforums.com/
