Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Fokke Nauta Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: Can't connect to laptop Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 15:43:42 +0200 Lines: 63 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net XETj2r5SNF0/hzF0YOAXIQQhVY1dZ+2qxG8U4BCUOjdye/vzfz Cancel-Lock: sha1:MMhRsNPaDtO5JIsLsmUck1xDKrI= sha256:4Iyd6CAgI+1PJ3zFc86jsmqXWEJ124a5lJewpcgGeh8= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.15.1 Content-Language: nl In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.os.windows-11:18768 On 28/04/2025 05:46, Jack wrote: > On 27/04/2025 10:58, Fokke Nauta wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> My wife has a W11 Pro laptop. It is visable in the network but I can't >> open it. Her network detection is on, just as file and printer sharing. >> It is on a private network. >> When I try to open it from my pc, I get the message "Windows cannot >> access" the name of her laptop. Error code 0x80070035. >> This code says how to Enable NetBIOS over TCP / IP. I did and restarted >> the laptop. >> I still can't open it from my pc. All other pc's I can open, so this is >> a problem with her laptop. >> What else can I do to open it and access the folders and files? >> Thanks in advance for your help. >> >> With regards, >> Fokke Nauta > > Have you tried to connect using the local IP address? Yes. I can see her laptop but there is no access. If not try this: > > 1) Go to your wife's laptop and at the command prompt type: > > ipconfig > > This will give you the local IP address like this: > > Ethernet adapter Ethernet 2: > > Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : > IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.31 > Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 > Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1 > > In the above example you need IP4 address such as 192.168.0.31 or > 192.168.1.31 etc etc > > 2) Now go to your desktop or laptop and launch File explorer and in the > address bar type: > > \192.168.0.31 > > Press and you will be able to see the shared folder on your wife's machine. It was 192.168.1.189. I could see her laptop, but it wasn't accessable. No shares to be seen. > > Alternative is to use the FTP on your local network without using any > 3rd party software. Windows 11/Windows 10 has everything built in but > they are not enabled. You can enable them but first try the method > described above using the IP address as it might work. I don't have experience with FTP without 3rd party softwware. Fokke > > >