[dba-Tech] Network puzzles

[Tina N Fields]

Yes, booting pretty much with every change.

In Services, I've started every network service I find.

Yes, the antivirus is off for now.

Dang! I still cannot see the WIN 10 computer from the WIN 81 computer.

And I cannot see the WIN 81 computer from the WIN 10 computer.

What am I missing?

T

Tina Norris Fields
231-322-2787
tinanfields-at-torchlake-dot-com

On 10/8/2021 2:15 PM, John Colby wrote:
> Definitely turn off home group stuff.  Don't forget to reboot occasionally
> as just setting properties doesn't automatically enable it.
>
> Open services and check out "Network" services.
>
> Also turn off antivirus stuff until you get this sussed.
>
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 2:19 PM Tina N Fields <tinanfields at torchlake.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello Tech Wizards,
>>
>> I hope somebody on thus list will have an answer. I want to be able to
>> share files between two computers. One is Win 8.1 and the other is Win
>> 10. They are both 64-bit. They are on the same network and they have no
>> difficulty finding the printers or the Internet. But, I've been unable
>> to establish a secure (as in solid or reliable) connection between them.
>>
>> I have turned on the network, printer, and file sharing in the Network
>> and Sharing Center. I have made sure that the Function Discovery
>> services are on, so they should be publishing themselves on the network.
>> I had them connected at one point and even mapped out network drives for
>> them, with "reconnect at startup" set to "yes." They have since
>> disappeared. On each computer, in File Explorer the network shows only
>> that particular computer.
>>
>> I found a lovely document online that said when both computers are on
>> the same network the process is pretty straightforward and offers
>> exactly no explanation of what that process might be. Dang!
>>
>> Does anybody here have advice for me? I am getting really tired of
>> waiting for things to upload to my Google Drive and then download , or
>> putting things on a flash drive to go from one to the other. I really
>> would like to have them wirelessly connected via the network they both
>> are on.
>>
>> Thank you for any guidance you can offer,
>> T
>>
>> Tina Norris Fields
>> 231-322-2787
>> tinanfields-at-torchlake-dot-com
>>
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