This is driving me mad :-)

I have a 2003 Native AD domain with some Vista clients and I want to
enable Network Discovery via Group Policy.

How do I do this please?

Using the Group Policy management tools in Vista I believe I have access
to everything that is visible/configurable but I simply can't find a
black and white guide on what settings need to be in place to switch
this on.

Cheers!

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This is driving me mad :-)

I have a 2003 Native AD domain with some Vista clients and I want to
enable Network Discovery via Group Policy.

How do I do this please?

Using the Group Policy management tools in Vista I believe I have access
to everything that is visible/configurable but I simply can't find a
black and white guide on what settings need to be in place to switch
this on.

Cheers!


I'm not aware of any Group Policy settings for this, but you can use the
'netsh' command to enable / disable 'Network Discovery' eg a blanket enable
(for all network profiles) would be .....

netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="Network Discovery" new enable=yes

There's also a com scripting interface with prog id "HNetCfg.FwPolicy2" with
which you can do similar things.

That may or may not be particularly secure, so for a more granular control
(ie for individual profiles) you can use similar 'netsh' comands in
script(s) to enable / disable specific firewall 'Network Discovery' rules.
That's the way I do it anyhow. May be other ways.

--
Jon