I just installed a new Windows 7 computer and was preparing it for the user that is to receive it. I had one more application to install over the network but I could not see the server (Windows server 2008). I tried everything I could find on the internets and nothing worked. I finally came up with an idea to map to IP address.
I clicked map network drive and typed in the server address and share name (ec: 192.168.1.7\ShareName) and clicked finished, suddenly I could see all the xp machines and the missing server in the list of computers in my network. I made sure and clicked "reconnect" and restarted to have a look. It reconnected fine and is available, but the XP machines are still unavailable. If you have a static IP environment, this is a fix, if you don't this is perhaps a bit more frustration. I do not have a fully static environment, but the server in question does have a static IP so I consider this problem solved ...for now.
UPDATE: Go to your DHCP server's address pool, right click, "new exclusion range", add the static IP of your DHCP server to that. You only have to add in the "from" field, leave the "to" field blank and it will only exclude that IP from distribution. It seems that devices that are not windows devices like to acquire the IP of the DHCP server for some reason. If this doesn't solve your problem, proceed to the steps below.
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