On 2013-09-19 3:56 PM, DSinc wrote: > All of my Brother's LAN clients appear to be: WORKGROUP=MSHOME. Is > this an OS default? > I do know how to change this value. And, all of my Brother's clients > are set to get their network specs > automatically - the MS Default (like from his router). Fine. > > When he brings his laptop to my home once a year, he can somehow get > to the internet via my router, but he > can not get to any of my other LAN services/PC's//appliances. Odd. I > used to admin his laptop 'into' my LAN, but this > never really fixed everything. Confusing? > > Is WORKGROUP= ? a router DHCP assigned value? > I have recently turned on my router's DHCP server, and the logic seems > to work fine. > > My home LAN and all of my PC clients us WORKGROUP=WORKGROUP (probably > from back in Win2K times). > All of my PC's and appliances work just fine. > > If this makes little sense, I apologize. I just had to ask. > Duncan >
Workgroup is not something a router sets (at all - it's not a property of a DHCP scope), instead it's statically set in System properties. What its intention was to have a collection of computers that are on the same network and share resources, but not in a corporate domain (Active Directory). It's an arbitrary name you assign, and on new installs I believe the default is WORKGROUP, but I've seen MSHOME on some people's machines - it might be a default in the non-pro edition of Windows. Workgroups have always been slightly imperfect in my experience - what's supposed to happen is that machines broadcast to find all the other machines in the same workgroup and show them in network neighbourhood. I've occasionally found that some machines don't respond or are never browsable via network neighbourhood, but you should still be able to navigate to your other machines using the a syntax like \\MACHINENAME or \\<IP.ADDRESS>. Don't forget that newer operating systems may not turn on sharing by default, and depending on the sharing model (Simple or not) it still may not work even if you navigate directly to the machines - everything has to use the same model I think. Jamie -- Jamie Furtner [email protected]
