Enabled Network Discovery on Server, and now VNC and Squeezebox clients don't work

Posted by Mike Hanson on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Mike Hanson
Published on 2010-06-04T18:18:24Z Indexed on 2010/06/06 10:33 UTC
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I've recently setup a Windows Server 2008. It's running an email server, Squeezebox server, MS SQL Server, etc. I'm doing remote maintenance with UltraVNC.

I had everything working fine. Then the server needed to access a network share on another machine, and I was prompted to turn on network discovery, which I did. I chose the Home rather than Public option.

Since doing that, some things have stopped working, while others are still fine.

  • Shared folders and the the Email services (ports 25 and 110) are still accessible.
  • VNC (port 5900) and Squeezeboxes (port 9000) no longer work.

Here's what I've tried to try to solve the problem:

  • Checked the network discovery settings, to see if anything looked strange.
  • Checked the firewall settings, and those ports appear to be open.
  • Also in the firewall settings, the entries for Private domain Network Discovery were all on, but the Domain/Public ones were off. I tried turning those on.
  • In the services, turned on Function Discovery Resource Publication and SSDP Discovery.

Any other suggestions?

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