I don't know about you guys, there are 12 pages of replies. do you read all of these? They all say same thing over and over
I'm contributing with 3 new fixes. My issue is now resolved. Read further as
THIS IS MY FIX
First, the scope:
I am on windows 10. When I go to network in windows explorer it only found itself. My computer is a domain computer. The others are not. Specifically I wanted to access a windows 7 computer. I could access that computers share through the ip. Not through
its name. So obviously some kind of dns issue.
Things from this thread I tried (and didn't work, but I have left them on as suggested):
-made sure no antivirus or firewall was blocking
-made sure client for Microsoft network was on and the connection is PRIVATE network
-made sure NetBIOS is enabled on the connection
-made sure NTLM v2 is preferred way of negotiate
-even tried some registry edit suggested
What made a change:
- first change that made a difference was turning of homegroup. In change advanced sharing settings, where you say what the private/public networks should do, instead of default, I chose, "Use user accounts and passwords to connect
to other computers". After that, the network screen showed the name of some of my computers, but they were still not accessible.
- I did a nslookup myothercomputer, and found several issues.
The first problem. The response was like:
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: myothercomputer.mydomain.com
Address: 92.242.140.2
when I did ping myothercomputer it would reply:
Pinging myothercomputer.mydomain.com [92.242.140.2] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
But my other computer is not on the domain. To fix this I went to IPv4 properties, advanced, dns, choose append these dns suffixes, if there are already suffixes there, remove them all, then add . (a dot only) and then retest pinging. Now it gave me the
following
Pinging myothercomputer [92.242.140.2] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
you can add your domain as the second suffix for computers that ARE on your domain.
- second problem. What is that IP? It's an external IP !!!
I searched the net. seems like others having issue with this ip. And the remarkable fix. TURN OFF IPv6. Then disconnect from network. Then reconnect. Then retry ping. I now got
Pinging myothercomputer [192.168.1.105] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.105: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.1.105: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.1.105: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.1.105: bytes=32 time=5ms TTL=128
go back and turn IPv6 back on and reconnect if you like. The issue is fixed though.
Now, go to Windows explorer and network screen and double click that other computer. Voila! I'm getting login dialog.
CASE CLOSED. ISSUE FIXED.