Thursday, 16 January 2020

Enable Network Based Discovery Services (Server 2016 And 2012 R2 )

 Enable Network Based Discovery Services (Server 2016 And 2012 R2 )




I have experienced an interesting issue today. I was about to set up a network sharing path to an application which doesn't support full path as its a network ( client-server) application. 

When i tried to browse the path under network I wasn't able to see any shared files under network. 


After some search on google and personal help from my Network Guru , I fix it 

Let's see what we need to do to enable it. 

There is few services and needs to be enabled to browse the file under network. 

1)DNS Client - Make sure its running 


2) Function Discovery Resource Publication Property - Running /Started

3) SSDP Discovery - Running / Started 
4) UPnP Device Host - Running / Started 

in addition to this services make sure the network discovery is turn on as well. 


Now we need to enable the netBios as well in TCP/IP


Thats all we should be able to see the path 




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