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Asked: 2011-04-16 11:00:52 +0800 CST

How do you hide domain clients from showing up in Network Browser?

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How do you hide the domain clients from seeing one another in the Network Browser? I don't want to disable Network Discovery because I would like to be able to maintain them, access their administrative shares and run installations remotely.

This command does not work.

net config server /hidden:yes

How do you guys get around this?

networking clients discovery

2 Answers

  1. Disabling Computer Browser won't affect your ability to manage the systems remotely, just to see them in the network browser list.

    Nuke the Computer Browser service and NetBIOS over TCP on the NIC or via DHCP with impunity.

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  2. You mentioned that you disabled network discovery, that tells me that you're running Vista, 7, and/or W2K8. Are you running any W2K, W2K3, or WinXP machines?

    For Vista, 7, and W2K8 disabling network discovery should be enough. I'm assuming that similar to previous versions of Windows that it will take time for the machines to drop out of network neighborhood/my network places just as it takes time for them to show up in network neighborhood/my network places so be patient.

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