PNRP

Anyone tried using PNRP?

I tried accessing it through the cmdl. shell, adding a registration like this

netsh
netsh>p2p pnrp peer
netsh p2p pnrp peer>add registration 0.whatever

or just

netsh p2p pnrp peer add registration 0.whatever

Using 0. as a prefix to the peer name means it becomes an "unsecure" peer name, meaning it's not really unique but it should do for testing. And obviously you substitute "whatever" with whatever you like as a name.

The registration can be checked by entering

netsh p2p pnrp peer>show registration

Resolution should happen in a different process, so in a new shell -

netsh p2p pnrp peer resolve 0.whatever

On my network and machine setup this is quite fragile - it appears to work sometimes, other times not. Sometimes can be seen immediately, other times not even after say 15 minuttes. And even when resolution occurs locally, it doesn't work outside my local network.

Once you can resolve locally, try this

ping whatever.pnrp.net

I also have that working, just not from any other machine than my local.

For those interested, see the PNRP videos uploaded on Channel 9. Search for the tag.