W11 Pro no network map, Workstation,education and enterprise all OK

Hi folks
To look at the difference between editions I created W11 pro, W11 Enterprise, W11 Education and W11 pro for workstations. All same domain / workgroup etc. Created on vhdx files so choice of which system to boot --OK. Each one booted without a trouble not concurrently of course - these aren't VM's. Plenty of space on a 2 TB SSD (NVME) device to do this. Install fast and simple via dism /apply-image. 4 images in the install.wim file 1-pro, 2-enterprise, 3-education 4-workstations. Made each windows install disk 60GB.

All of them except W11 Pro could show me other computers in the network. W11 Pro refused to have anything to do with it - you had to enter an IP address. Nothing I could do changed the behaviour. -- All editions on latest insider canary build. Whether the fact that only W11 Pro was activated made any difference to this test or not I haven't a clue but that's the only significant difference between the editions after basic install that I can see (although I believe W11 Enterprise and W11 for workstations supports more RAM and more than 2 physical processors.

Tried re-installing W11 pro again same problem.
Never mind about economists giving alchemy a good name -- I think the same must apply to Windows networking. too.

W11 DEV and W11 beta maps network OK BTW. Just seems an issue on my machine with Canary.

Cheers
jimbo

In Win10/11 Pro, the first time you open File Explorer and try to expand Network, a small nag bar opens at the top of the window below the toolbar and asks you to enable Network Discovery.

I'm not sure if that nag bar always appears though, but suffice to say, that it will not display anything on the network until you enable Network Discovery.

If you don't get the nag bar, you can go to Settings > Network & internet > Advanced network settings > Advanced sharing settings and enable it there. While you are there you can also configure all of the other settings for network sharing etc.

Why this is only present in the Pro version, I have no idea and I was not aware that the other versions do not seem to have this requirement.

I do know that Windows 7 does not have this requirement.