My Vista won't draw me a Network Map

[Guest]

On one machine I get the message "Windows cannot create a network map for the
selected type of network connection." whenever I ask it to draw the full map.

As far as I know I have a perfectly ordinary type of network, and its set to
be a "Private Network" so I'm not sure why it won't work.

How can I find out what "type" of network connection it thinks I have, or
why that would mean it can't create a map of it?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Tiberius]

this works only with vista computers on a network...

however there was a patch that enabled XP to be "seen" on the map to.

What OS do the other computers have?

 

[...winston]

Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) Responder (KB922120)
for XP Pro or XP Home
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=922120

Note: It does not fix networking problems; only allows the XP machine to be mapped on the network as Vista sees to interpret.



: this works only with vista computers on a network...
:
: however there was a patch that enabled XP to be "seen" on the map to.
:
: What OS do the other computers have?
:
:
: : > On one machine I get the message "Windows cannot create a network map for
: > the
: > selected type of network connection." whenever I ask it to draw the full
: > map.
: >
: > As far as I know I have a perfectly ordinary type of network, and its set
: > to
: > be a "Private Network" so I'm not sure why it won't work.
: >
: > How can I find out what "type" of network connection it thinks I have, or
: > why that would mean it can't create a map of it?
: >
: > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
:
:

 

[Guest]

I have the exact same problem. I'm on a private network and all other XP
computers on the network have the link layer topology discovery thing
installed and network discovery is turned on. When I click View Full Map it
gives me a message saying "Windows cannot create a network map for the
selected type of network connection." All the responses I've seen so far are
people saying to make sure the LLTD update is installed on XP computers but
this is already done! It's not an issue with the network since I can find the
other computers and share files with no problems. It has something to do with
the settings on the computer attempting to create the map. The frustrating
part is that when I first started using Vista this feature worked fine but
then it mysteriously stopped working. Hopefully someone can figure out what's
going on here.

 

[Barb Bowman]

Is this machine wired and using an NVidia ethernet NIC?

On one machine I get the message "Windows cannot create a network map for the
selected type of network connection." whenever I ask it to draw the full map.

As far as I know I have a perfectly ordinary type of network, and its set to
be a "Private Network" so I'm not sure why it won't work.

How can I find out what "type" of network connection it thinks I have, or
why that would mean it can't create a map of it?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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MS Windows-MVP
Expert Zone & Vista Community Columnist
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/meetexperts/bowman.mspx
http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/

 

[Walter Blanchard]

I was going to ask the same question. If so, the update from WU/MU probably
is the culprit. It's the NVIDIA nforce Networking Controller. I can't find
the KB number, but it was installed on 5/18. Rolling back to previous
driver solved the problem here.

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[Peach Turley]

I had similar issue with Vista not being able to draw Network Map. What was causing the problem in my case was I had updated the Nvidia Ethernet Driver (65.55) and when I rolled back to the original driver installed by Vista, I'm now able to draw the Network Map.

This driver (NVidia Ethernet driver 65.55) must be breaking the LLTD (Link Layer Topology Discovery Protocol) which I understand is what Vista uses to discover your network topology and to draw a network map.


Hope this works for you

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[Guest]

I have the exact same problem. I'm on a private network and all other XP
computers on the network have the link layer topology discovery thing
installed and network discovery is turned on. When I click View Full Map it
gives me a message saying "Windows cannot create a network map for the
selected type of network connection." All the responses I've seen so far are
people saying to make sure the LLTD update is installed on XP computers but
this is already done! It's not an issue with the network since I can find the
other computers and share files with no problems. It has something to do with
the settings on the computer attempting to create the map. The frustrating
part is that when I first started using Vista this feature worked fine but
then it mysteriously stopped working. Hopefully someone can figure out what's
going on here.

 

[Paul Stotts]

I experienced that problem. It was caused by WU, nVidia network Controller
driver v.65.5.5.0.
Roll back to v.6.2.0.126.

Paul

 

[Walter B]

Yes, and the "problem" update continues to be offered by WU.

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