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In one of my previous articles – “Hide your Vista Computer on the Network” I wrote about what the network map is in Vista.
The network map on a computer running Windows Vista shows a graphical view of the computers and devices on your network and how they are connected by using the LLTD protocol. Thing is, that in order to display Windows Vista/2008 computers in the network map you need not do anything special. However, in order to make Windows XP computers appear in it, you will need to download and install the LLTD responder before it can be detected and appear on the network map. You can read more about this issue in my “Installing Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) on Windows XP” article.
You can download the update from the following link:
Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) Responder (KB922120)
All this is good and well, however there’s one little catch. By default, you can’t run the LLTD responder update under Windows 2003. If you try to run the update you’ll get this error:
However, you can try to force the update to run by performing these steps:
Note: Installing LLTD on Windows Server 2003 is NOT SUPPORTED by Microsoft, and has mixed results. Do NOT do it if you don’t know what you’re doing, and if something breaks, don’t expect anyone to help you.
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As noted above, this procedure is not supported in any way. Use at your own risk.
Got a question? Post it on our Windows Server 2008 forums!
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