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: Wed, 7 May 2025 11:06:14 +0200 Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 5jDZnYvNUE1O3OKGn5k75QRkg3jZ9hVwjEKGjZj3CVigDhMIQg Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ju3R/kh5Gy7TIyu5LYjO4qCzYE8= sha256:sROYRiUfgdg3c8FoG/MuV7/gzRqIr19xSEQem16z/u0= 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-11:19127 On 05/05/2025 16:42, Frank Slootweg wrote: > 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. > > FYI/FWIW, after some 140 responses, I tried to set up a share from my > wife's Windows 10 laptop to my Windows 11 laptop, both Home edition and > both on Wi-Fi. There was no problem whatsoever. On the Windows 10 > system, I just clicked on the Windows 11 system's name in the Network > tree of File Explorer, was asked for the account name and password of/on > the Windows 11 system and that was it. Of course entering \\ > in the path box of File Explorer gave the same result, so even with > Network Discovery problems, \\ just works. Thanks for trying. > > Note that I normally share the other way around, from my Windows 11 > laptop to her Windows 10 laptop. So the share I made did not exist > before and there never was a similar share before. > > This does not really help you, but - at least IMO - is proof that > there is something rather uncommon wrong with the setup of your wife's > Windows 11 laptop. Yes, indeed. (Or is it a Pro-specific issue?) No. I have also a W11 Pro laptop with shared folders. From the network they all are accessible. Fokke