PC not showing up in Network folder on my Server

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PC not showing up in Network folder on my Server

Jordan Joseph Borg 1

I have no idea why but my server won't show me my main PC in my Network Folder yet it still connects to it via IP.

Windows specifications

Edition: Windows Server 2019 Standard Evaluation

Version: 1809

Installed on: ‎01/‎02/‎2020 (European)

OS build: 17763.737

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MotoX80 36,291

Is its name registered in your DNS server? IE; does "nslookup desktop-2o06lgp" return the correct IP address? Dothose settings from DHCP?es nslookup on the IP address return the correct name? Is this an Active Directory domain? Do you have DNS installed on the server or using a WiFi router for DNS? Do you have the correct DNS search suffix listed in the NIC properties? Or getting that from DHCP?

If you are using network discovery are all of the required services running? Use my script from this post.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/302088/how-to-switch-from-a-call-by-ip-address-to-a-call.html

Read through the above post and look at what we did to try to figure out name resolution.

Jordan Joseph Borg 1 Reputation point

2021-12-11T16:08:53.29+00:00

Is its name registered in your DNS server?: Yes
Does "nslookup desktop-2o06lgp" return the correct IP address? : Yes
Does nslookup on the IP address return the correct name?: Yes
Is this an Active Directory domain?: Not sure
Do you have DNS installed on the server or using a WiFi router for DNS?: WiFi Router
Do you have the correct DNS search suffix listed in the NIC properties?: It's all empty
MotoX80 36,291 Reputation points

2021-12-11T18:07:58.067+00:00

Could be network discovery. Run the Powershell script from the link that I posted and see if that fixes it.

Or can you just map a network drive?
Jordan Joseph Borg 1 Reputation point

2021-12-12T10:45:32.937+00:00

I already have a network drive but the problem is that I need to put certain permissions on different computers but in network discovery doesn't want to show up so I wouldn't be able to put permissions
MotoX80 36,291 Reputation points

2021-12-12T13:57:36.103+00:00

I'm sorry, but I am apparently not familiar with what you are trying to do.

Permissions on what? To do what? Is that image from the indexing service?

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