Exercise 7.2: Setting Node Types

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Exercise 7.2: Setting Node Types

In this exercise, you set your node type both by modifying the TCP/IP configuration and by editing the registry. (This exercise requires that you have a permanent address.)

1.	Open the TCP/IP configuration dialog box (right-click Network Neighborhood, choose Properties. On the Protocols tab, double-click TCP/IP).
2.	Select the WINS tab and clear the WINS entry.
3.	Choose OK to close the TCP/IP Configuration dialog box and then Close to exit the Network Settings dialog box.
4.	Restart your computer.
5.	Start a DOS prompt and enter the command IPCONFIG /ALL. You should be set for Broadcast node.
6.	Return to the WINS tab (see steps 1 and 2) and enter the IP address of your WINS server (any address will do).
7.	Close the TCP/IP and Network configuration dialog boxes and restart your computer.
8.	Start a DOS prompt and enter the command IPCONFIG /ALL. You NetBIOS node type should change.
9.	Start the Registry Editor (Start, Run REGEDT32, OK).
10.	Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, open the following keys and subkeys: SYSTEM, CurrentControlSet, Services, NetBT, Parameters.
11.	NodeType is not listed in this key. Choose Edit, Add Value.
12.	Enter NodeType as the name for the value and choose REG_DWORD as the type. Choose OK.
13.	Enter 4 as the value. (Hex should be selected.)
14.	From a command prompt, type IPCONFIG /ALL. Your node type should be Mixed.
15.	Edit the value in the registry, changing NodeType to 0x2.
16.	From a command prompt, type IPCONFIG /ALL. Your node type should be “Peer-Peer.”

Delete the value and reset the network settings to their initial state, and then restart your computer.

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