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Just upgraded my laptop to Windows 10. Everything seemed fine until I tried to connect to my Win7 desktop. Manually typing the name doesn't work (gives me Unspecified Error (0x80004005)
), and when I open the Network section in Windows Explorer it is not listed there. What is listed is two of the other computers on the network, neither of which it will let me connect to (same Unspecified Error
). All my computers (including the desktop) are functioning and on the network. They can all see each other, and if I turn on a share from my Win10 laptop then it can be connected to by the desktop. But for some reason, the Win10 machine can see only a few of the machines on the network and cannot connect to any of them, seen or unseen.
I thought at first it was the firewall, but no settings helped and even disabling it did nothing. I have made sure that all relevant computers have discovery turned on but that didn't change anything either. I can ping my desktop, both by IP and by name, but even after pinging I can't browse the drives or even see most of the PCs. By the way, this is impacting being able to connect to explicitly shared drives and to the implicit administrative shares (C$, etc.).
UPDATE:
I realized that since I could ping the desktop that I could try connecting via IP address. That worked, and mysteriously fixed the problem of connecting by name. The Win10 laptop still won't "see" most of the network devices, but it now seems to be able to at least connect to them by name. No idea what's going on with it. I would still hope someone can weigh in with a proper fix for the network discovery (or whatever it is that's broken).
Did you enable printer and file sharing on the W10 PC? It is disabled by default. – Moab – 2015-08-09T21:04:09.663
2I had a similar problem... I could, for about 12 hours, connect from my W10 PC to my W7 PC. But then W10 PC offered to categorize my network connection, and from that moment forward I could not connect. Have not been able to restore yet, very irritating. I'm watching this thread :) My error message was "network path not found" (even though Network displays the device) – Patrick Moore – 2015-08-20T15:50:57.477
Well, I just found a solution to my problem, maybe it will help you: I turned Firewall OFF on the PC with shared folders; I added port exceptions (TCP 5357-5358 and UDP 3702,5355) to the PC trying to reach the shared folders. – Patrick Moore – 2015-08-20T16:04:22.333
Printer and file sharing has been enabled since before I posted. As far as I can tell it is enabled on the Win7 desktop as well, for all the good it seems to do... – techturtle – 2015-08-20T16:06:59.003
Just typed the computer name on file explorer address bar preceded by "\" and it found the computer. just type \computername – Joao Leme – 2018-03-01T13:52:43.713
2@JoaoLeme The 3rd sentence in the question specifically states that manually typing the name doesn't work (I was using the
\\
). All my machines are Win10 now, and the problem has largely gone away, but it still doesn't work as well as it did in Win7. – techturtle – 2018-03-01T13:58:35.323@techturtle Make sure they are on the same WORKGROUP as well. – Joao Leme – 2018-03-06T13:35:49.347