LAN play and Windows 8

[Thorin]

Cowgirl started a local world in single player and played for a while. Eventually I asked to join, thinking she could just open to LAN and my Minecraft running on Windows 8 would find it.

Nope. I tried all kinds of things, but eventually I had to completely disable my firewall and then direct connect to her IP and port. Nothing else worked. I have no idea why.

My son running Windows XP had no problem seeing and connecting, of course...

Oh, and I found her two veins of diamonds and I'm waiting for her to log back in so I can watch her mine them

[Mr. Analog]

Is the firewall set to allow Java?

[Thorin]

Yeah, I allowed Java through the firewall.  Eventually I turned the firewall off completely and I still couldn't find the world shared to LAN.  I had to use the Direct Connect feature with the IP address to connect to it.

In googling for my problem, I can tell you that many, many other people are having the same problem.

[Mr. Analog]

That's gotta be annoying. Hope you get things connecting

[Mr. Analog]

Oh I just thought of this but do you have VPN software set up on that Windows 8 machine? Maybe it's trying to connect through the wrong gateway

[Thorin]

Yup, had that thought as well, killed all VPN clients and made sure they weren't running anymore as per Task Manager.  Also uninstalled VMware, which made extra (virtual) network adapters.

[Mr. Analog]

Hmm

[Tom]

My best guess is windows is still filtering out broadcast or multicast traffic even with the main firewall stuff off.