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.

Anonymous
2024-02-23T17:36:06+00:00

I just bought a new PC and am trying to connect to another computer by sharing on private network. My old computer was connected to the network and I have turned on network sharing etc and turned off password protection on new windows 11 computer.

I have changed manual to automatic on the 4 items recommended under services.msn

The windows 10 computer sees my windows 11 computer under network

How do i see the windows 10 computer in network on my windows 11 computer so I can connect by ethernet to Quickbooks as my old computer did.

Do I need to up date all computers to windows 11, same versions?

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-02-02T02:51:25+00:00

    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.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-01-28T00:03:50+00:00

    I went with shortcuts instead of mapping, but that worked!

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-01-22T03:38:08+00:00

    Thanks so much.

    I'll give it a try and let everyone monitoring this issue know how it worked out.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-01-22T02:22:39+00:00

    I had the same problem....bought a new laptop Win 11 Pro.....I set up and used my microsoft account to log into my computer and couldn't see anything attached to my net work. I have 2 other laptops....1 uses Win 11 Pro and the other Windows 10 Home

    The only way I could fix it was to change my log in with my new laptop to a local log in where I use the laptop password, not my account user name and password....while I would prefer using the MS account log in process as it is more secure, I couldn't see the other laptops attached to my network.

    Hope this helps.

    This worked for me but with a win 7 and win 11 machines. The 7 could see and read everything on the 11 but got a not authorized when trying to see from the 11 into the 7 machine. If you are seeing the same problem Google "windows 11 sign in local account" and follow the AI instructions. And use the exact same credentials on both machines, I've had this problem since I bought the win 11 machine at a pre Black Friday sale. So as you can see only took me +2 months to find an answer. Awesome job Microsoft!

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-12-30T19:53:06+00:00

    Thx will take a look.

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