Error: Network Discovery will not turn on.
Hypothesis: Find the port or the program name for Network Discovery and Netlogon, access it through a search inside of the windows firewall exceptions tab and Netowrk Discovery should turn on,
Research:
Learn how to Add programs into Windows Firewall Exception list.
Go to http://www.clearapps.com/help.html#faqa9
Microsofts lists posts and their application protocal and the service names at http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/support/articles/ref_net_ports_ms_prod.mspx
After my research I was stilled in a state of confusion, so I turned to a student and he helped me.
These are the steps we took
- Go to Windows Firewall, click on the advanced tab and click the "Restore Defaults" button.
- Click on the Exceptions tab and click the boxes for NetLogon and Network Discovery.
-At this point Network Discovery still was not turning on. - I went back and turned on File and Printer Sharing as well.
- We turned on some more of the services that can be found through going to administrative tools. -This is not very useful because, I don't remeber what we turned on.
- We were able to turn on Network Discovery, but we were not able to turn on Printer sharing.
- To fix this problem we unistalled the printer and reinstalled it.
- Printer sharing was turned on succesfully.
Reflection: this post becomes useless at step four because the reader does not which services to turn on inorder for them to have the same success as author of the blog. I can definatley Imrove my taking of notes when I fix computers, but as for this case I also need those who fix the problem to write down the solution steps as they go.
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