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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 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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2024-11-19T00:04:32+00:00 Where is the "mapped drive". I don't see it anywhere and it doesn't come up in searches.
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Anonymous
2024-12-07T18:37:11+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.
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Anonymous
2024-12-07T19:13:33+00:00 I can't totally agree with you regarding the MS login being more secure. MS will say it's better for integration with their stuff and enhanced security. They do provide security. but whether it's better than what a user can do with adding VPN (encryption), anti-virus and malware support would do just as fine perhaps equal or better. I am not sure if MS enhanced security provides VPN - it may, not sure. I have always used local login names/passwords and I still had this problem. However, the strange anomaly in my home network is one day all of a sudden (within the last 3 days) I can see my Win10 PCs from my Win11 PC. What changed?!?! I turned on my Win7 box. Then all of a sudden I began seeing my Win10 PC from my Win11 PC. I haven't tested to see what happens if I turn the Win7 box back off if I continue to see my Win10 box from my Win11 box or not. Perhaps my Win7 box is causing my anomaly - not sure at this point. I originally started my home network group from my Win7 box and maybe something in the networking components of my Win7 box sends messages along the network for all Windows systems (above Windows 7) to see each other, or some service is turned on or off that makes them all talk. This is a bit fuzzy to me because it's almost out in left field. I will test this as soon as I can and get back.
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Anonymous
2024-12-16T19:22:08+00:00 I've had the same problem, Windows 10 pc can see Windows 11 pc but not vice-versa, both in the same network. All the usual variables are good, i.e. network discovery, file sharing, password, etc. Yet no luck.
One thing worked, in the Win 11 computer (the one that can't see the Win 10 pc, I typed, \ComputerName in the path bar at the top of the file explorer window. The Win 10 shares appeared. I then mapped the ones I wanted so they would always show up when I opened File Explorer.
I don't get it but it worked for me.