I have a new windows 11 computer but i can't see the windows 10 computer on the network. The windows 10 computer on the network can see my windows 11 computer.

I had a similar problem. The Win 10 computer could see the Win 11 in network and connect to it. The Win 11 computer could connect to my Win 10 using the \computername but it only showed my router in the network. After hours of troubleshooting settings on both computers to no avail, I finally deleted my Win 10 computer's network card (updating the driver had no effect) in device manager. On restart Win 10 re-installed the network card and the Win 11 computer could now see the Win10 in the network, and everything now works as expected. I do not know if this fixed some errant setting in the network adapter or if there was driver corruption, but it is an easy thing to try if the solution is not obvious.

You can try this.......when doing the last update I couldn't see any computer connected to my laptop. This worked for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElYZjC7QNpc

Very helpful video Dennis. Thank you.
Say, do you have any similar advice for those of us who may have just dropped over a grand on a new Windows 11 PC only to find out it has Windows Home instead of Pro (no Group Policy Editor)?

Frankly, I'm not interested in paying Microsoft another $100 to upgrade to Pro just so that I can find some obscure setting that fixes what used to work 3 weeks ago before 14H2.

Hello, thank you for the reply - I have followed the steps that you advised, but unfortunately I still get exactly the same error message. I did try re-booting both laptops after making the changes you suggested when it did not work initially, but again there was the same error message.

Can you provide a screenshot of the error message about being unable to access the network drive?

Hi, this is the error message I get when trying to access a file which is located on the Windows 10 laptop from the Windows 11 laptop. Please remember in the original question asked, there was no problem accessing files on the Windows 11 laptop from the Windows 10 laptop which is the situation I am also in.

Hello,

Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft support. Based on the information you have provided, it seems that the mapped drive is not showing up on the network computers. Here are some troubleshooting steps you can try:

1. Check if the network discovery is turned on for all the computers on the network. To do this, go to Control Panel > Network and Sharing Center > Change advanced sharing settings > Turn on network discovery.
2. Make sure that the mapped drive is shared with the correct permissions. Right-click on the mapped drive and select Properties > Sharing > Advanced Sharing > Permissions. Make sure that the appropriate users or groups have the necessary permissions to access the mapped drive.
3. Check if the firewall is blocking the mapped drive. Make sure that the firewall is configured to allow file and printer sharing. To do this, go to Control Panel > Windows Defender Firewall > Allow an app or feature through Windows Defender Firewall > Check the box next to File and Printer Sharing.
4. Try accessing the mapped drive using the IP address of the file server instead of the hostname. For example, instead of typing \servername\sharedfolder, try typing \192.168.1.1\sharedfolder.

I hope these steps help you resolve the issue. Let me know if you have any further questions or concerns.

Regards,

Zunhui