{"id":688,"date":"2011-05-25T14:07:17","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T13:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/?p=688"},"modified":"2013-09-25T11:26:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T10:26:47","slug":"enable-network-discovery-server-2008-r2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/2011\/05\/enable-network-discovery-server-2008-r2\/","title":{"rendered":"Enable Network Discovery Server 2008 R2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Need to enable <a title=\"What-is-network-discovery\" href=\"http:\/\/windows.microsoft.com\/en-US\/windows7\/What-is-network-discovery\" target=\"_blank\">network discovery<\/a> in Windows Server 2008 R2?<\/p>\n<p>The Problem is that after\u00a0you have enabled this it simple <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">turns off again<\/span> so you need to enable the following services. I changed the startup type to automatic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Start the following services:<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre lang=\"basic\">net start \"DNS Client\"\r\nnet start \"Function Discovery Resource Publication\"\r\nnet start \"SSDP Discovery\"\r\nnet start \"UPnP Discovery\"<\/pre>\n<p>You still may not see the contents of &#8220;network places&#8221; populate with all the computers across the network so you will need to &#8220;enable NetBIOS over TCP\/IP&#8221; from the network card adapter properties.<\/p>\n<p><em>Control Panel &gt; Network Connections -&gt; Right click Properties on network card -&gt; Select TCP\/IP Settings -&gt; Click Properties -&gt; Advanced -&gt; WINS tab -&gt;\u00a0enable NetBIOS over TCP\/IP<\/em><\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">This is usually configured within <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\" title=\"How to disable NetBIOS over TCP\/IP by using DHCP server options\" href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/313314\" target=\"_blank\">DHCP<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"> for clients, however in my situation I was enabling this feature on a server, therefore a fixed IP address not pulled from DHCP.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a title=\"Network discovery (stays off)\" href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/Hso4Y\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/social.technet.microsoft.com\/Forums\/en\/windowsserver2008r2general\/thread\/e1cc2310-b4f7-4de5-818a-352d8f792de5<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Need to enable network discovery in Windows Server 2008 R2? The Problem is that after\u00a0you have enabled this it simple turns off again so you need to enable the following services. I changed the startup type to automatic. Start the following services: net start &#8220;DNS Client&#8221; net start &#8220;Function Discovery Resource Publication&#8221; net start &#8220;SSDP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-server-2008"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOPt8-b6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}