Network Neighborhood View

[Biomech]

Hello all,

I want to upgrade the all the computers here at my office from 2000 to XP, but management has a problem. When they go to their Network Neighborhood, they see the comments for the computers first then the actual name in parentheses. Is there a way the drop the comments from showing and just have the computer name like in 2000?

Thanks for your help in advance.

 

[butchrecon]

Actually all you have to do is go to VIEW (When in My Network Places in W2K) and select LIST. This will get rid of the comments section. You can also do this in XP. James Collins
Field Service Engineer
A+, MCP

email: butchrecon@skyenet.net

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[Biomech]

The problem is in the Name field. For some reason it shows the computer description before the computer name. I spent 5 hours yesterday going line by line in regedit to try to find a line that tells it to do that. The only thing I found was that if I spent that much time looking at the monitor I need to get glasses.

Thanks for the advice though.

 

[linney]

Do you have the option "Choose Details" (not to be confused with "Details&quot on the drop down "View" menu. If you do, select it and have a look at the details you can check or uncheck. Is there one that applies to "comments"

 

[allbymyself]

Did anyone ever figure out a good way to do this. The solution proposed does not work like I need it to. Eliminating the comments is not the problem (i.e. linney's post). The display looks like this:
Name Comments
John Doe (GAS3333) John Doe

When I want it to look like:
Name Comments
Gas3333 John Doe

or even the below would work ok.

Name Comments
Gas3333 (John Doe) John Doe


I don't care if the comments(description) is in the "Name" column or not and by using the post by linney, we can eliminate the comments column. No problem. I just want the Netbios name to show up first under the name column not the description(commnent) of the computer.

Has anyone done this?

 

[robertheck]

I also would like to sort computers by name not comment when browsing the network. Going to View, choose details, and unchecking comments does not work. XP still displays computers with comments first then the names.

 

[bcastner]

If I wrote a script to do this would it make you guys happy?

I know the XP display is different. It just is.

You could as Administrator redo your computer comments to reflect the netbios name first.

Barring that, you could script an enumeration of workgroup or domain computers. See the Microsoft MHS TechNet resource. There are example script files that essentially do what you want to do.

 

[allbymyself]

No problem. I just wanted to make sure that wasn't a registry setting I could change to do what I wanted.

Thanks

 

[bcastner]

allbymyself,

Yeah, I wish it was the old NT/Win2k style of display myself.

But, it ain't.

 

[robertheck]

Could you possibly point me to the information on enumeration of domain computers technet, I can't seem to find it.
Thanks.

 

[robertheck]

still unable to find information on this.. can anyone help me? thanks in advance

 

[Ntr0P]

I share your frustation! The best workaround I have found is to switch to the Explorer view (click the Folders button on the toolbar). The left pane will show the computers sorted in order as it used to be.

Example:

http://www.krtservices.com/Stuff/MachName.jpg

 

[robertheck]

"If I wrote a script to do this would it make you guys happy?

I know the XP display is different. It just is.

You could as Administrator redo your computer comments to reflect the netbios name first.

Barring that, you could script an enumeration of workgroup or domain computers. See the Microsoft MHS TechNet resource. There are example script files that essentially do what you want to do."

I looked on Technet and could not find any information on enumation of domain computers. Does anyone have a direct link or know where to find this?

 

[bcastner]

TechNet, and other resources including non-MS sites are fairly well indexed here:

http://www.robvanderwoude.com/index.html