Windows 10: 2 Win 10 PCs can't network properly - What am I overlooking?

I need to start by saying that I have been doing Advanced Sharing on my home LAN since, I guess, Win 3.1 for Networks. I have a home LAN that typically has 3-4 systems active at any one time, plus printers. I find that things break (or fix themselves) mysteriously without any action on my part. *Banghead

I honestly don't know what to do next to fix this current problem. I'm open to all suggestions.

Right now we are travelling and I can't get my wife's system, call it L, and my system, call it D, to network properly. If it matters, my system D is Win 10 64 Pro, and my wife's system L is Win 10 64 Home. Because of this problem the backup program running on my system can't back up the files on my wife's system.

I get these problems all the time. Normally I can solve the problem, even if it's just an ugly workaround. This time I can't seem to solve this problem even after I have gone through all the tutorials in the Network and Sharing forum. And all the settings that normally work to get networking and sharing to run properly, I've done those and I still can't solve this problem. *Banghead

On system L, the network icon window does not show system D. But if I type \\D into the network icon search box, all the volume shares on D do show up. So system D can share drives and files with system L.

On system D, the same is not true. On system D, the network icon window does not show system L. And if I type \\L into the network icon search box, the volume shares on L do not show up. Which means that my backup program running on system D can't backup files on system L. Can you tell I'm really po'd?

• Both systems are on the same Wi-Fi 5.0 Ghz network. From a cmd window, each system can ping the other successfully.
• In the Advanced Settings on System Properties, both systems are named properly and both on in Workgroup.
• On both systems the network is set up as private, with Discovery and File and Printer Sharing turned on.
• Norton Comcast security suite is installed on both systems. Further, I have added each system to the Norton Security Settings Firewall for settings for Device Trust using their MAC addresses.

It would be useful if there was a master checklist of all the settings needed to share files successfully. To me, networking is one of the most frustrating parts of Windows, always has been. Maybe this thread can be the start of this master checklist.



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