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Ryan Peters
Asked: 2013-02-09 10:01:23 +0800 CST

Set up DNS and DHCP roles on Win 2008 server. Why don't clients show up in Explorer?

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I disabled the DNS/DHCP on my router and activated those services on a Windows 2008 server. Everything is working fine, but when I go to browse the network none of the machines can see any other machines, whereas they could when DNS/DHCP was handled by the router. All client settings are the same.

I'm unsure what actually drives this lookup for Windows. What is it and how can I enable it in Windows 2008 DNS or DHCP?

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    Did you check network properties on each of the workstations and see if network discovery is active? I would think that since you changed your network around, the clients may be waiting for you to specify if the new network is a home/work/public network again.

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  2. The answer was I just had to reboot the machines, and they showed up one-by-one in the network listing. Some still had the old DNS server and others simply needed a reboot. Johnny was technically correct, as was mbrownnyc. Thank you both.

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