I can only get this SDK sample of PeerChannel SecureChat to work in the following scenarios in a basic home network:
- Locally among instances running on the same machine, or
- Among Windows 7 machines
I cannot get this to work between my Windows Server 2008 R2 and any other machine (no exceptions are thrown, but the nodes never find each other and thus don't go "online"). I CAN ping the IPv6 addresses among all machines. The executable has a firewall exception rule, but I have also tried disabling the Windows 2008 firewall completely. The PRNP Service is running.
Is it possible to get it working? How?
Does it work on YOUR 2008 machine?
My best guess: I notice that in the Windows 7 machines, the "Peer Networking Grouping" and "Peer Networking Identity Manager" services are present. The "Peer Networking Grouping" service's description there and online talks specifically about enabling multi-party conversations, but related to Home Groups. This service is missing in the Windows Server machine.
So, I suspect the missing service as the reason that the SecureChat sample won't work on the Windows Server machine, but I don't understand why Microsoft would lock out Peer Channel from working on the Server product. Could this be the reason?
Thanks!