Program adjustments (Preferences)


The Window is accessible from menu Settings-> Preferences.

General

Online/Offline/Opened/Alarm color - colors with which in the list are displayed online/offline/opened in this session/with the enabled notification computers accordingly.

Autosave settings - keeps adjustments of the program in INI a file automatically at an exit from the program. INI file is in the catalogue %USERPROFILE %\Application Data\NetView\NetView.ini for WIN'NT/2000/XP or in catalogue WINDOWS in Win9x systems

Autostart on windows startup - automatically start NetView at system startup.

Force dynamic IP - This option is neccesary in DHCP networks, if enabled IPs of all hosts will be automatically updated before every recheck

Alarm on online - a global mode of the notification about host's goes online

Alarm on offline -a global mode of the notification about host's goes offline

Minimize to tray - enables an icon in tray, which image depends on state of NetView. Right click on an icon it is possible to access the context menu with a set of the basic functions. If at you the three-push-button mouse you can open NetWatcher by a clique on the middle button on a tray icon.

Minimize on close -minimizes NetView to tray on close main window

Allow multiple instances

Show ToolBar.

Single click open -to open hosts by single mouse click. Some people likes this.

Silence mode - a "silent" mode at which netview does not show any messages. It is useful at independent work and it is simple if to you so more conveniently.

Show notes as caption - allows to display Custom comments as signatures of hosts in Visual map view mode

Delite empty lists - automatic removal empty hostlists

Advanced search -Allows to search hosts over all lists by typing its name or IP

Autosort hostlist - After every recheck all lists, which not in mode Visual Map are automatically sorted.

Startup delay - helps to remove problems with the postponed start of drivers. (When netview it was started and the network still is not present Ж:-)).

Clear DNS suffixies - to clean(remove) DNS suffixes at names хостов. It is useful for prevention of occurrence of "doubles" and it is simple for appearance. But only if at you in properties of a network environment are registered DNS suffixes for automatic search. In this field it is possible to specify through a mark ";" dns suffixes which need to be deleted from names хостов. It is possible to specify a mark *-в this case all suffixes at names which do not have prefix www will leave.

Show notes as caption - allows to choose language of interface. Now there is a current a Russian and English. Will write some more what - send to me - I shall lay out on a site or I shall include in the distribution kit together with copyright Ж:-).

 

 

Hostlist file options.

Here you can specifi path and name to file in wich all information about hosts, hostlists, lines and areas will be stored. This file also automatically loads after NetView starts. Having pressed button Edit you can edit a file in Notepad.  Provisional lines from a file:

 *NetView hostlist created on 2003/1/12 at 19:42.8 

192.168.7.10 killer ** some_stuff * - 

ipxhost ** some_stuff* * 

$list$192.168.x.x ** UTP Cat5E* 

It It is better do not touch some_stuff



Re-read hostlist - by enabling of this option NetView will re-read hostlist from a file at every refresh

Avtosave hostlist - by enabling of this option NetView will keep hostlist at every refresh

 

 

Opening options

Open using hostname - opens machines by their names. All the same that you will enter in Run \\ hostname. The maximal compatibility.

Open using IP address - opening occurs by IP address that works faster on NT/2000 systems. Under win95 it similar at all does not work. Under 98 and ХР works, but more slowly than by name. Sometimes, in multisegment networks, at incorrectly adjusted WINS srvice on a server some hosts from one segments become invisible to other segments by name. By IP, as a rule, all works fine.

Open in Window - opens computers by default (by doubleclick or ENTER) in a window

Open in Explore - /../ In a catalog tree of Windows Explorer

Open in Custom program - -/../In the mentioned below program, for example, Total Commander.

Recheck on opening - rechecks host before opening

Open offline -tries to open a computer even if at last recheck it was offline

Open normal - the window opens in a normal size

Open maximized - /../ maximized

Open minimized - /../ minimized

Max logsize -the maximal size of log - file after which or its beginning will be cut out or it will be renamed automatically at other number (Rename logfile when full).

 

 

Checking

Using ping -check will be carried out by pinging IP addresses by ICMP echo request with 32 bytes of data and the given waiting time of the answer. Check will be carried out tries times up to the first answer. If answers are not present - хост is offline

Using port -check will be carried out(spent) by attempt to establish connection with given IP addresses on the given port. If to specify port 139 (by default) - all included machines on which the service of joint access to files SMB is started will be shown. If to put 80 - that you learn(find out) addresses of all online HTTP servers. Common TCP ports you can read the list in file COMMPRTS.TXT and in file CPORTS.LST - this file is the basic the list of comments to ports for NetView and in all ports are marked with + will be listened by IP logger'ом

Use RAW sockets for port scans - by default when perfoming rechecks with port scanning NetView creates socket for every scanned object and calls connect() API. When enabling this options NetView creates only one RAW socket for scanning of all objects - this saves system resources, but RAW sockets accessible only on Windows 2000 and higher and only if NetView started by local system administrator or is running as the service. Warning: this option can work inproperly if firewall is running on your machine.

Recheck by passive listen, initiate delay: -this option is allowed only on Windows 2000 and higher and correctly working only if NetView started by Administrator or Local system account (as service). When this option is enabled NV will force rechecking of any checkable offline host by receiving IP packet from it. Such forced by IP packed recheck can occurs only one time after every global recheck. So NV can practically momentally reacts on events of any host turned on, if it sends any packets that arrives host where NV is running. Host's recheck will be forced after specified here count of milliseconds after receiving an IP packet from it. Warning: this option can work inproperly if firewall is running on your machine.

Enum shares on host - enables displaing count of shares on the online computers in columne Connection. Not recommended - can cause system resources leak when using in large networks.

Recheck every ## min - will carry out automatic recheck of the list by the timer every ** minutes. Take into account that for hosts in the individual order it is possible to establish count of missed global rechecks. It allows to set the various periods of rechecks

Autorefresh - updates the list of machines after every list recheck by interrogating a network and re-reading LMHOSTS (if enabled).

Quick startup - do not interrogate a network on presence hosts at start. At the list there will be only those hosts, which are in a LMHOSTS file. This mode temporarily can be toggled on startup by pressing SHIFT at start of the program and having released at the beginning of recheck.

Quick enum - the accelerated method of interrogation of a network. Works faster standard but does not lists computers of other working groups

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