Home network computers aren't shown in Windows Explorer

Anonymous
2018-06-24T06:56:05+00:00

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?

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Internet and connectivity

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  3. Pauli O 16,380 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2018-07-03T02:51:19+00:00

    Reading those last postings I realize that I have wrongly understand that you have to set IP's to static because that is required by your mobile hotspot, which lead me to wrong track.

    Sorry for that miss understanding.

    In some users (like myself) keeping router on pure DHCP and disabling IPv6 has been helped, but I see form previous postings that you have already try that(?).

    There should be some kind of table on your router (DHCP) settings like I have on my old router. By clicking button "Manual Assignment" that router remember which IP-address belong to each MAC address. (Even while this IPv6 trick work for me  didn't put my router back to full automatic and that's just laziness.)

    New routers / modems may remember this automatic and no changed required.

    Have you look your router manual for IP-assignment?

    Which is branch and model of your router? 

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-07-03T02:41:49+00:00

    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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