Hi Arad Haghi,

Thank you for posting here,

In order to enable the Network Discovery settings, you may make sure the following services are enabled and running.

- DNS Client

- Function Discovery Resource Publication

- SSDP Discovery

- UPnP Device Host

How is the networking configured in the server? What sort of network does this server connect to? Can Windows identify the network? What does it say about it?

You cannot change the sharing options if you are not in a private network.

Hi Arad Haghi,

Thank you for posting here,

In order to enable the Network Discovery settings, you may make sure the following services are enabled and running.

- DNS Client

- Function Discovery Resource Publication

- SSDP Discovery

- UPnP Device Host

Hi Arad Haghi,

1. By default, the Function Discovery Resource Publication service is Manual. SSDP and UPnP Discovery service are Disabled.

2. Network location is determined by system. We cannot change it.

Whenever theres a network change (say it receives a new IP address or sees a new default gateway or gets a new interface), a service called Network Location Awareness (NLA) detects the change. It builds a network profilewhich includes information about existing interfaces, whether the computer authenticated to a domain controller, the gateways MAC address, and so onand assigns it a GUID. NLA then notifies the firewall and the firewall applies the corresponding policy (theres a policy defined for each of the three profiles).

For your reference, here is a good blog which can be helpful for you.

How Network Location Awareness works

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753545.aspx

Why is my network detected as unknown by Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008?

http://blogs.technet.com/networking/archive/2009/02/20/why-is-my-network-detected-as-unknown-by-windows-vista-or-windows-server-2008.aspx

Exploring The Windows Firewall

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2007.06.vistafirewall.aspx

I am having the same problems with R2. I enabled all the services you advised and now network discovery is showing as ON for the Domain, Public and Home or Work but other machines on the domain still CANNOT see this machine.

Also, I didn't have to enable these services to get network discovery to work in ANY other version of Windows when connected to a domain. This seems a little long-winded and over-complicated just to get network discovery working. I'm sure there's something simple I'm missing but for the life of me can't figure it out!

thanks, its solve my problem!!!

Ricardo de Lima

Hello Arad,

You are Champ.....

The services you suggested to start this resolved my issue.

Thank you so much for you help with explaination.

Hi Wilson Jia,

Thank you for your support

your solution is work gr8.

m very very very thanks to you.

Yep, that was it. Thanks Wilson

... other machines on the domain still CANNOT see this machine.

... can't figure it out!

hi

last night my computer was running normal

today i open computer and my network discover is custom i never saw that before

or was on or off

i am not an expert in computer

please tell me in simple ways what i should do is very urgent

Hi Arad Haghi,

 

Thank you for posting here,

 

In order to enable the Network Discovery settings, you may make sure the following services are enabled and running.

 

-      DNS Client

-      Function Discovery Resource Publication

-      SSDP Discovery

-      UPnP Device Host

Perfect!
Thanks for posting, was scratching my head for a while there.

Just getting into Server 2008 R2 for the 1st time so this has helped a great deal.

Kudos, ;)

Jason

Thanks for the information Wilson.

My problem resolved too.

Hi Wilson

Just to say this sorted the issue for me.

Many thanks

Richard Clark MBCS CITP

Wilson,

I enabled

       -      DNS Client (alreay running)

       -   Function Discovery Resource Publication (Enable & Start)

       -   SSDP Discovery (Enable & Start)

       -   UPnP Device Host (Enable & Start)

Now the radio button stays selected for "Turn on network discovery" after I choose Save Changes. Then I could see the server under Network. Thank you!

However, as Richfuji reported, I was not able to see any other computers at that time. After I restarted the DNS Client service and refreshed Windows Explorer then the other computers on the network appeared. Thank you! 

• Edited by Dave Worral Monday, February 11, 2013 7:14 PM
• Proposed as answer by Dave Worral Monday, February 11, 2013 7:21 PM

it is working on my issue.
Thanks!

George W

how to enable above setting???????