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We could never make Windows work this way. The account we use for Apache is the standard "Local System" account. This account has no access to network resources. Hence it cannot simply copy the script to or from a target PC. This was always a pain because the Linux way of running the Discovery was so much better and cleaner. After some (more) research we realised we can use network resources via "net use" - we simply don't assign a drive letter. Yay! So Windows now can copy the audit script to the target, run it, wait for the console output and then copy the result file back and process it, just like Linux.
NOTE - If you are seeing issues copying the scripts when using the default "Local System" account, please change the Apache service to use another assount. This account does not need any special access (as credentials are supplied for devices in Open-AudIT itself), it just needs "network" access.
Finally!
All that is a long explanation for "we don't need the default network address set". That's one less item a user needs to worry about.
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