Well that map is drawn using LLTD (Link Layer Topology Discovery) And yeah more than likely its going to completely useless for understanding or even troubleshooting your network.
To be honest its one of the worse things MS ever turned for normal users to understand anything. Sure in a perfect work and you understanding how the protocol works it can be useful
See mine
I have 3 different switches in my network, one of which is a smart switch. A linksys wrt54g as just an accesspoint, plus countless other networking devices not shown on the map.
For things to be shown on the map, they need to talk LLTD
http://en.wikipedia....ology_Discovery
Not all devices do, others will show up as their parts. For example your router, has a switch in it, so that could show up. Not sure why it would be showing a hub?
Depending on what your other devices are answering with they could show up as networking devices. I personally turn it off on all my windows boxes, which is why you see those boxes on the bottom are not listed in the map, etc. etc..
I would suggest you FORGET everything about that map and just work with your problem at hand, that map is not going to help you in anyway trouble shoot your simple sharing issue.
First things first can your machines PING each other by IP?
example
C:\Windows\System32>ping 192.168.1.4
Pinging 192.168.1.4 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.4: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.4: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.4: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.4: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Ping statistics for 192.168.1.4:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
C:\Windows\System32>ping p4-28g
Pinging p4-28g.local.lan [192.168.1.4] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.4: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.4: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.4: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.4: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Ping statistics for 192.168.1.4:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
C:\Windows\System32>net view \\p4-28g
Shared resources at \\p4-28g
Share name Type Used as Comment
---------------------------------------------------------------
ML2571N Print Samsung ML-2570 Series
partimage Disk
pch-stuff Disk
Public Disk
test Disk
The command completed successfully.
Also -- you really are using a SSID of linksys??? That is like their default one, you could not come up with something UNIQUE?? Say CoolMasterWireless or something? MyWPA, CubsRule, FBIVAN#23, etc. etc..
Lets get your basics down -- ie the ping, and then we can work on your sharing problem. As to that map -- close it, and never open it again. I would suggest you forget that it even exists!! Unless you want to start playing with the LLTD protocol?
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