how to set dhcp network name in mikrotik?

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Hi , I have a mikrotik with DHCP server configured and working in it.
but when windows clients connect to it and get ip from this router , windows shows the name of the network as unidentified network , or network2 , or network3 .
how should I set this network name in DHCP server settings?

for example on wireless modems , when a client connects to the modem , it gets the ssid of that wireless and shows in the second line of that network card. I want to set a name for the network in which that mikrotik is the gateway and the dhcp server.

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Did you set default GW in DHCP Server:

Microsoft for some reason designed Win7 (and Win8) to impose the restricted Public network profile for any network that could not be identified - which disables network file sharing. The Network Location Awareness (NLA) service will only allow you to set the network profile to Home or Work if the network has a Default Gateway IP address or SSID recorded for that network adaptor.

The solution proposed in the thread is to set a fake Default Gateway IP address - which causes the NLA service to release the block

  • which then allows you to select the Home or Work (Private) network profile.

The setting for all Unidentified Networks in Win7/8 is the Public (restricted) profile - and user selection is disabled.
However this default setting can be changed - so that ANY Unidentified Network is set to the Work/Private (unrestricted) profile. This can be done by altering or creating a single registry key - or if you have Win7 Pro (or above) via the secpol.msc (Local Security Policy Editor) utility.

See this forum tutorial posting
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/71408-unidentified-networks-set-private-public.html

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yes I have set a default gateway. but I didn’t set a relay. I think as you said I must somehow set or broadcast a SSID on that gateway which I don’t know how yet.

here is my config :

/ip dhcp-server> print
 #   NAME       INTERFACE     RELAY           ADDRESS-POOL     LEASE-TIME   ADD-ARP
 0   router5    ether-1-e1000                           router5-subne...        12w6d             yes 

 /ip dhcp-server network> print
 # ADDRESS            GATEWAY         DNS-SERVER      WINS-SERVER     DOMAIN                                                  
 0 x.y.z.128/25        x.y.z.160             209.244.0.3                                         router5.testchangeddomain.net                                    
                                                               8.8.8.8

I searched and saw that broadcasting SSID is something related to wireless interfaces. but my network is on a local LAN.

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Indeed. You first need to research how your operating system finds a descriptive name for the network, i.e. where it obtains that information from.
Maybe you can look at a system+network where it works to your liking, and do a trace to see what information it obtains from DHCP or other protocols.
Once you know that, it may be possible to replicate it on your own network and MikroTik.

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Did you ever figure it out?