Theres only one zt adapter listed by ipconfig, one in device manager. However in the control panels network center theres this.
The problem survives a complete windows reinstall, so I presume its a bug of some kind? Always one of these networks is in the Public zone. I know group policy allows ownership naming of networks that are in the process of being “identified”, so it may be something to do with that? Setting the non-phantom network to Private via PS works, but then theres also only one with a Zero* alias.
I notice also that file sharing seems to stop working to this machine - i can remote from it into the NAS or directly mount the share, but cant see it in Networks as normal…
Any ideas? A fourth windows reinstall doesnt seem likely to fix whatevers going on here. Im on the latest ZeroTier 1.14.1, latest Windows 11 Pro, completely stock. All peers pingable and directly connected.
Less the header line, having one zt adapter for each line here is normal.
If only one ZeroTier network is active, then this kind of bug can happen if the ZeroTier installer runs as anything less than a full local Administrator, or if NTFS ACLs on the ZeroTier configuration files are changed in unusual ways. Ditto for the ZTTAP device driver.
Get ZeroTier working before doing things like:
Applying GPOs
Joining a domain
Installing endpoint protection or other AV Software
Running it in a virtual machine where the emulated MACs are dynamically assigned or can otherwise change.
Perhaps it was enabling network discovery before installing zt? Thats the only thing i can think of that would change group policy with my intervention immediately after install. That and running
