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Re: using the shared folders on the lan

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On Fri, 18 Apr 2025 22:26:10 -0400, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:

>On Fri, 4/18/2025 9:37 AM, knuttle wrote:
>> I have been using folders that are shared on the LAN by several computers for years on Windows 10 computers.
>> 
>> Now I have upgraded to a new computer with Windows 11 Home.
>> 
>> Now when ever I try to map a network drive I get the message "Windows Can not access \\Laptop  (Laptop is the name of the other computer on the LAN.)
>> 
>> I have worked on this for a couple of days and can not find why all incoming and outgoing activity to LAN devices is blocked.
>> 
>> What am I missing?
>
>Be aware, that the nameserver behavior and the Browse Master,
>to this day are still flaky. I did an experiment here (just for you),
>using three computers, to see how well a "non-domain" configuration
>works, and my results were not-good. I tested from a W11 computer,
>to a mix of W10 and W11 machines.
>
>But as long as you use the built-in "ipconfig" on each computer,
>and you use    \\192.168.1.3\shared
>instead of     \\wallace\shared
>it should work then.
>
>Those strings are what you type in the File Explorer address bar.
>
>Don't be discouraged, by opening File Explorer and not seeing
>the icon for the share server. You can still make a connection,
>using the number, despite what the icon situation looks like.
>
>The IP address method of finding another machine,
>should work for you, as long as the workgroup
>setting is the same on all the "pseudo-domain" home machines.

One of the nice things about accessing a Windows computer by its IP
address is that the workgroup name is irrelevant. Or at least it was
irrelevant from Win 95 thru Win 10. I can't speak for Win 11.


>I can use "nbtscan", to ask each potential address to respond.
>Kinda like a ping.
>
>   nbtscan 192.168.100.0/24        # Scans 256 addresses, looking for shares
>
>and then you can have a list of ip address, without knowing
>"which one is Wallace". But for your purposes, using the
>built-in "ipconfig" command and discovering the IP address
>of the various machines, would also give the same info if you
>needed an IP address to reach a share you created on it.
>
>We do that for Linux, where the record on the icon situation
>is not all that good either.
>
>   explorer \\wallace\shared
>   explorer \\192.168.1.3\shared   # Works on Windows, when the other format logically does not work
>
>   nemo smb://wallace/shared
>   nemo smb://192.168.1.3/shared   # Works on Linux,   when the other format logically does not work
>
>If you really want the icons to show up, you can try
>starting your LAN with just the router powered. Then
>boot up the Win7 machine and wait a few minutes until
>the desktop settles. This will allow the win7 machine to become
>the Browse Master. Then, when subsequent machines start, you
>may discover that everyone has working network icons. That's
>the only correlation I've seen, on the home LAN, is starting
>the old OS first, might make for a better server of names.
>Since this is normally too much work, to do a controlled
>LAN bring-up, you can use IP address syntax instead.
>
>  Paul

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using the shared folders on the lan knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-04-18 09:37 -0400
  Re: using the shared folders on the lan Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2025-04-18 14:49 +0100
    Re: using the shared folders on the lan knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-04-18 11:18 -0400
      Re: using the shared folders on the lan Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2025-04-18 16:40 +0100
  Re: using the shared folders on the lan Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2025-04-18 15:26 +0100
    Re: using the shared folders on the lan Valerio Vanni <valerio.vanni@inwind.it> - 2025-04-18 17:54 +0200
      Re: using the shared folders on the lan SOLUTION knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-04-19 07:16 -0400
        Re: using the shared folders on the lan SOLUTION Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-04-19 14:04 +0100
          Re: using the shared folders on the lan SOLUTION knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-04-19 13:02 -0400
            Re: using the shared folders on the lan SOLUTION MikeS <mikes@is.invalid> - 2025-04-19 19:11 +0100
  Re: using the shared folders on the lan Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-04-18 22:26 -0400
    Re: using the shared folders on the lan Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2025-04-22 20:34 -0500
  Re: using the shared folders on the lan Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-04-19 11:34 +0000

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