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| Thread ID: 145607 | 2017-12-16 19:52:00 | Folder sharing problem - any tips? | BBCmicro (15761) | Press F1 |
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| 1443451 | 2017-12-18 20:34:00 | So I took your advice Dugi and mapped both ways while I had the chance. On restart File Explorer shows red crosses (both ways) on the mappings. R-click says Disconnected. However a single L-click on each of them removes the crosses and it all works. But File Explorer's Network location doesn't show the shares If mapped drives works, just live with that . Unless you want to spend alot of time & frustration on it. Sometimes have to wait a few minutes after startup or double click to get rid of the red cross You could also check that the computer browser service is running on both. |
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| 1443452 | 2017-12-18 23:50:00 | Good point, 1101, re checking for computer browser running. | linw (53) | ||
| 1443453 | 2017-12-18 23:55:00 | Just checked here. WSD will be the discovery method for itself but NetBios for the rest. | linw (53) | ||
| 1443454 | 2017-12-19 04:38:00 | If mapped drives works, just live with that . except I didn't map all the shares I needed. I'll have to Google how to do it when the shares are not visible in File Explorer The Computer browser service is running in both computers. I note that if it fails to start it waits 2 min to try again. Seems rather a long time these days? - could've rebooted by then |
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| 1443455 | 2017-12-19 06:26:00 | and I also see that Events Viewer is littered with errors and warnings, mainly DistributedCOM but also BROWSER. Both computers have similar errors and number of them. The Browser warnings say that the Master Browser is the other computer... Anyway, thanks for your help guys. The balls in my court |
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| 1443456 | 2017-12-26 04:26:00 | Seems a lot of my troubles were due to an unreliable Wifi connection. I've now got both computers on Ethernet and everything is fine apart from one of them not seeing its own shares When I built my new Ryzen rig the Wifi worked straight off (both MBs have built-in Wifi). But as I got more apps to work I needed another network adapter for our music streaming - one to receive the internet radio station, the other to send it across the room via Wifi Direct So instead of hunting out another Ethernet cable I simply robbed it from the old computer, which switched to Wifi. I used the new computer for all my Internet access. When I came to linking the two computers I forgot that I had removed the ethernet cable, and I even reset the unused Ethernet adapter trying to sort out the problems. Since I hadn't been using Wifi the driver was old and I guess unreliable... In retrospect I should have taken a no-connection error as a sign that the computer might not be connecting to the network (rather than to the share). We normally check connection by whether we have internet access but I wasn't doing that. There's not much sign of no connection. Nothing emblazoned across the screen saying: ALERT - You are not connected to any network So bit of a red face here. Still, I learned a lot about networking from you guys |
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