Network Neighborhood icons using Win XP

[Alejandro Jakubi]

I have Win 9x and Win XP machines forming a group within a local network. In the Win 9x machines Total Commander shows, when clicking the Network Neighbourhood button, the icons for the machines in my group plus an icon for the whole network. However, the same version of TC (e.g. 6.01) installed in Win XP shows the whole list of shared resources within the LAN, whether they are in my group or not. This is a quite long listing whose display does not interests me most of the time.

I wish in Win XP the same behavior as in Win 9x, but I have not found any option in TC to set it. Am I missing something?

[Clo]

2Alejandro Jakubi
Hello !
• I noticed the same thing... I think it's a "wonderful" XP-feature...
- Under Win98 SE, it's handier : I created buttons in the toolbar for each remote computer... I.e. : cd \\Alex...
• You can do the same under XP: you might have -at the end of the shared items list- each computer of the LAN shown as a dir. So, you could establish buttons for each one, simply by Drag & Drop. Please, see the Help at this topic.
• Then just click an icon to get one PC on the LAN.
• You can see that as 3 icons on the toolbar in the English Tutorial, as a screen-shot of the user-interface under XP-Pro. (these icons are Right / Left computer images, + a laptop image).
- Available for free from:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/charries/download.htm#tcmd >>> total-commander-tutorial.zip
- Hoping that'll help you,
  Kind regards,
Claude
Clo

[Alejandro Jakubi]

• I noticed the same thing... I think it's a "wonderful" XP-feature...

I wonder whether it is just so because shared resources icons in My Network Places can be organized after the equipment, and it can also show just the equipments within the working group. I have not found a way to do the same within TC.

- Under Win98 SE, it's handier : I created buttons in the toolbar for each remote computer... I.e. : cd \\Alex...

Yes, this is one way though I prefer to reserve the tool bar for applications and provisionally I have added cd \\s in the Change directory menu.

And it does not provide the very useful functionallity of showing at a quick look which machines in the group are on. It does not solve either the confusion produced when looking at the mix of the plugin icons with lots of icons of shared resources out there in the LAN.