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I have two laptops A and B. They were connected wirelessly through my router on a HomeGroup and it worked fine. In the latest Win 10 upgrade the HomeGroup has been deleted and since then I have had terrible trouble connecting them.
I hibernate the laptops each night. When I open them in the morning, Laptop A can see and access laptop B in the Network folder of Windows Explorer. But laptop B doesn't always see laptop A and I can't get it to see it (not even by putting \laptopnamein the address bar).
Sometimes laptop B does show laptop A but when I try to access it I get a 'Windows can't connect" message.
I have tried all the sharing, credential and other options to make sure they are all consistent - nothing changes.
The ONLY way I have found for laptop B to access A is to restart laptop B (NOT A). Then it will automatically connect to A.
How do I get back to the old HomeGroup system of both computers accessing one another automatically when I wake them up?
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Seahawks - I have looked through all your suggestions, but my router doesn't seem to have the screens you are showing (e.g. the DHCP Reservation list, the Device Table). It has WPS enabled, but what do I do then? I assume I "add enrollee" but that asks me for an STA pin or an AP pin. I have no idea what they are for.
Pauli O - my router won't accept the MAC addresses of my computers so I can't set the IP addresses associated with them. What should I do?
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Thanks,
I go ipconfig /all on my computer and it gives me four different physical addresses of the form 24-0A-64-B0-32-85 (that one is under 'Wireless LAN adapter Wi Fi)
I go to my router's LAN settings and "Add entries" under 'Enable DHCP Server" and put in that MAC address with an IP address of 192.168.0.3 (the current IP address) and it says that is an 'invalid MAC address'. It says that for all four of the physical addresses.
Am I doing something wrong?
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