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Thursday, September 8, 2011

Enable Network Discovery

"Network discovery requires that the DNS Client, Function Discovery Resource Publication, SSDP Discovery, and UPnP Device Host"
 
 
Enabling and starting these services did the trick and now Network Discovery is enabled and I can see the server.
 
•Function Discovery Resource Publication


•SSDP Discovery


•UPnP Device Host

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Reset/restore xp or Vista Permissions

To restore your operating system to the original installation default security settings, follow these steps:
  • Click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then press ENTER.
  • In Windows XP, type the following command, and then press ENTER:
    • secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\repair\secsetup.inf /db secsetup.sdb /verbose
  • In Windows Vista, type the following command, and then press ENTER:
    • secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\inf\defltbase.inf /db defltbase.sdb /verbose
  • You receive a "Task is completed" message and a warning message that something could not be done. You can safely ignore this message. For more information about this message, see the %windir%\Security\Logs\Scesrv.log file.