Windows 10: Are my computers networked or not???

Windows 10 64-bit Home v. 1803. I am confused. Just got a MS Surface Pro 6 and have set it up to mirror my HP Envy desktop. I have also, to the best of my ability, tried to set these two up on a sharing network. I also have a Logitech M720 mouse. Using Logitech's "Flow," one should be able to use the mouse between both computers and be able to copy and paste between computers. Here's the problem: When I 2x click Network on the Surface, both computers appear under Network; and, both computers appear in the right pane (don't know its name) under Computers and they also appear under Media Devices (with music symbols on their icons.) However, when I 2x click Network on the HP, nothing shows under Network and nothing shows under Computers in right pane. However, the two computers (with music symbol) do show under Media Devices, but there is no computer heading nor computers under the heading???

The source of my confusion is that I am able to use the M720 mouse to copy and paste, and in general, to do the things one expects to do when the computers are networked??? Doesn't the functionality of the mouse indicate that the computers are networked, but why aren't the computers showing up in HP Network???

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One computer cannot access other network computers.


So I've tried every troubleshooting step I know:

• Double checked that Net Bios was enabled
• Ran a bunch of network commands:
  • flushed DNS
  • registered dns
  • pinged and located the named computers successfully
• Reset my router to factory settings

Nothing works when I try to access via explorer. I'm still baffled by the fact that every other computer can access each other AND access this computer. It's just the outgoing connection from this machine that doesn't work.

Any thoughts?

 

Unable to browse network computers.

We suggest creating a new administrator user account by following the steps
here. Make sure to use the same network settings that you used for your other computers, then check if you can connect to the home network. Since you also mentioned that Windows 10 was freshly installed on this particular computer, have you already downloaded
the latest updates? The latest build for Version 1607 is 14393.1715, and 15063.608 for Version 1703. You can check the build version of your computer by following these steps:

• Click Start.
• Type winver and press Enter.

If you don't have the latest updates, you can follow these steps to install them:

• Click Start.
• Go to Settings.
• Click Update & security.
• Click Check for updates.

If that doesn't work, we'd like screenshots of the network and file sharing settings of the computer that doesn't work, and the settings of one of your other computers that can connect and share files properly on the home network.

 

Basic Network guide

I'll be adding a small page on doing this in windows vista soon, since XP is the same with a step or two less, i assume people will figure it out.