Most applications that use the Windows Peer-to-Peer applications require use the global cloud for most scenarios. However I have found that occasionally the global cloud is not present on some machines. Here is some troubleshooting tips you can perform...

A PNRP cloud is a collection of computers participating in PNRP name lookups and registrations. PNRP uses two clouds – one for link local operations and the other for global communication through the internet. You can create a private global cloud...

You can find a good list of whitepapers and presentations on our P2P technologies at http://www.microsoft.com/p2p . Whitepapers are available on the following: * Overview: Gives an overview of the scenarios for peer to peer and associated technologies...

The March CTP of the .Net Framework (codenamed “Orcas”) was released earlier this month . In the CTP you will find a new namespace (System.Net.PeerToPeer) which exposes a rich suite of APIs to make writing Peer-To-Peer (P2P) apps easier. More specifically...