October 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1104 pages
64h 7m
English
If you are setting up a small network of computers that connect with each other through an Ethernet switch or hub but not a router, you’ll run in to a problem with the Windows Network Location feature. Windows uniquely identifies each network that your computer joins by the Media Access Control address (MAC address), a physical hardware identification number, of the network adapter at the network’s TCP/IP gateway address. On a computer without a router, Windows automatically assigns IP addresses; however, there is no gateway address, so no MAC address to examine, so Windows cannot tell this network from any other network. It will call the network an unidentified network and will not let you enable file ...
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