Windows 10, Version 1809. Network does not show computers

I am having this problem also. My computers are connected via Ethernet. No wireless adapters.

What trigger are you referring to and how do I remove it?

You are absolutely right. The problem is the trigger they added. I have two machines connected through Ethernet that had this problem. I removed the trigger and changed the startup of FdResPub to Automatic. The problem disappeared and never came back regardless of the build.

@IvanTorres,

Some of those articles may be old.

The workarounds for v 1803 were no longer valid on 1809 and all after that.

1803 was the 1st version were they failed to start FDResPub completely and just changing it to automatic was enough to fix the problem.

Starting with 1809 they added a trigger to start the service manually and changing to automatic was not working anymore.

The problem has been the same from 1809 to todays 20H2 and also insider builds.

They never fixed the timing problem they have when starting the service.

Really all they need to do is check if the network is up and ready before they start FDResPub.

Also all my machines are Win 10 Pro and when I enable Remote Desktop everything works fine without restarting FDResPub, I just think remote desktop is just adding another variable to the time the service is started.

All the settings in my machines are the MS defaults that you get with a new clean install.

Had problem on WIFI too, changing "Function Discovery Provider Host" and "Function Discovery Resource Publication" Startup Type to "Automatic (Delayed Start)" fixed problem on WIFI, but not on ETH.

Implemented Task Scheduler Job as described on p18, reboot and problem gone. Expect it will stay gone.

Thanks.

Glad it worked for you too.

In my case I've never seen this happening with Wi-Fi, but I think some other users reported it also with Wi-Fi.

It is really a timing issue. The problem with Delayed Start is that you cannot specify how much to delay :-)

What is the Brand and model of the Wi-Fi card ? And what is the driver level and date ?

About the Delayed start...I read the delay is those services start after the last Auto start service starts.

I looked around and found this old article https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/win10-function-discovery-resources-publication/864f3f5d-ff49-4941-a0c5-b76d17d88d17 where MS describes a workaround by having some services start automatically. They apparently are services disabled on that last update, related to Homegroup and Peer to Peer networking.

Out of the services mentioned, Computer Browser was not shown in my system. Started Net Man and the three "Peer" related services. Those Peer services are described as related to Remote Assistance, which is a cousin to Remote Desktop which suggests to me some of these services get activated when you enable Remote Desktop, thus solving the problem.

As I did that, machine appeared on Network Explorer😵. However, I set services to Auto Delayed start and reboot and it didn't work. But, it would be interesting to look at the angle of what services are enabled when Remote Desktop is enabled on the machine.