Microsoft Windows Network under My Network Places 1

[Teknoratti]

When you are browsing Microsoft Windows Network under My Network Places, how does it browse for domains and workgroups?

Is there a broadcast or a browser service being sent out from each node?

Normally if you're at a computer and you browse under Microsoft Windows Network you'll see whatever domain(s), workgroup, and individual PC's on the network.

What allows you to see these entities when you browse Microsoft Windows Network?

Just a follow up to my inquiry, let's say I had a workgroup or a PC that I didn't want to show up in the browse list under Microsoft Windows Network what can I do to configure this?

 

[WhoKilledKenny]

Turn off The Computer Browser Service:
Maintains an updated list of computers on the network and supplies this list to computers designated as browsers. If this service is stopped, this list will not be updated or maintained. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start.

Disable NetBIOS on your system.

With that being said what is the reason you do not want to show up in the browse list? Just cause you are there doesn't mean your PC can be accessed and just cause you aren't there doesn't mean an Admin can't get to it. The reason I ask it that by doing the following you could lose functionality on your network and with certain applications...

 

[Teknoratti]

The reason I was asking is b/c we have a client who is on the network and is not part of the internal domain. He thinks for some reason that the PC created it's own domain because when he sees it in Microsoft Windows Network it appears right along side (below I should say) the domain.

I knew it was some sort of browser service but I wasnt sure of how the process worked.

Thanks