Why is my network messed up after update to windows 11 24H2

Anonymous
2024-10-28T10:48:56+00:00

Hello, after updating win 11 23H2 to 24H2 several "computers" are disappeared under the "network"pane in windows explorer.

The day before updating, all computers were attached to my network and visible in windows file explorer.

After update to 24H2 they were gone!

I did see that after updating the option for media streaming were turned off.

I put The media streaming option on again, but that was not the solution.

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-02-21T18:04:04+00:00

    Just thought I’d close the loop on my experience, don’t know if it will help you. I already had SMB signing turned on on my NAS, so the stated problem fixes really didn’t apply. My win11 laptop upgraded fine, the NAS showed up normally. The desktop continued to show an error that “the specified drive already exists” when I tried to map a drive to the NAS. I ended up deleting all of the errors on the previous maps that quit working, and bingo, I was able to map at that point. I have two “NAS” devices, one a full blown Synology NAS, the other a simple cloud storage drive. The Synology drive was the last one to work with the above actions.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-02-21T18:37:22+00:00

    Thanks for your input, which may help other users having problems mapping their network attached drives. However, as I stated, my problem is that update 24H2 causes my NAS drives not to appear in Windows 11 Explorer. I've never had a problem mapping either of my 2 Conceptronic CH3HNAS drives after applying the SMB Signing override tweak.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-02-21T18:48:26+00:00

    zutoozutoo

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-02-22T09:07:50+00:00

    Thanks to all of you who replied to my post but I have found a solution that works well, I have full access to my drives and I have used the same technique on all our laptops. I just go to my PC and add a network location.

    It does not fix the problem with windows trying to make things difficult but it is a good workaround (until Microsoft mess it up again). My final solution will be to move to Linux and I am trialling different distros to find the one for me.

    Thanks again to all.

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-03-04T00:32:45+00:00

    You are 100% right about this update being problematic and MS not being forthcoming about it's multiple flaws: including this one which goes back to netbios / LMhosts, WINS etc.

    I had a similar problem

    One of the techs told me it was a "legacy" issue: BS

    Check the properties in tcp v4 in wi fi properties or ethernet properties: whichever you are using

    enable lm hosts lookup and netbios over tcp/ip

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