Win 10 file sharing problem

Dave Plowman (News) · 2020-07-18T10:29:50+00:00

I've been 'upgrading' all the computers here to Win10 Pro. When they were Win7 on a homegroup, they all shared files easily. I have cabled LAN, Wi-Fi and a Wi-Fi range extender. If any two are on say the same Wi-Fi, they share files normally. But I'd not need an extender if this covered all the house. With one on the main router Wi-Fi and one on the range extender (TP Link), can't share. Same when one is on the cable LAN and another on Wi-Fi. Google did give a work round, but involved pages and pages of reconfiguring near everything onto static IP addresses and so on. Is it really the case that what I'm trying to do is outside the norm of a modern operating system?

Jul 18, 2020 42 Replies

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No Name 5 years ago

Yes you can if you start up a Command prompt window.....

AngryIPscanner is also a useful IP scanning tool...

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Dave Plowman (News) 5 years ago

There are ways of doing it. But not with your browser as of old.

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Dave Plowman (News) 5 years ago

Everything pretty well sorted now.

Exception is a few years old ACER notebook running Win7 starter. Only gets used mobile with MegaSquirt, and it's just fine for that. It sees all computers on the network and can talk to them. But none could talk to it. It shown in the network, but non can connect to it, but it can to them.

Changed its name. Everything sorted. Change it back to the original name. Blocked on all. No idea why. So just gave it a new name.

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