net view troubles in cmd

Question

Ok so ive been looking online with no luck to find an answer to fixing my net view command issue. The error is as follows:

 C:\windows\system32>net view_
 There are no entries in the list

 C:\windows\system32>_

Now from what ive read online this is caused when the guest account on a winNT machine is not enabled and is set to be the backup browser for the network. Two problems... I have no Windows NT Machine, i have no "computer browser backup". So i have no clue as to what i need to do in order to get this up and running. I have enabled file sharing and the computer browser under services.msc with no luck of showing the computers on my network. They are also all connected through the same workgroup.

Answer 1

For NetBIOS to work properly the following ports must be open on all hosts:

137/udp (NetBIOS Name Service)
138/udp (NetBIOS Datagram Distribution Service)
139/tcp (NetBIOS Session Service)

I'd recommend opening 445/tcp (Direct SMB) as well.

If you have the Windows Firewall enabled, you must add exceptions for all of these ports.