Windows 10: Changing Now Discoverable As on Windows network

I am on a MacBook Pro, then Parallels, then Windows 10. I need to change the discoverable as network on Windows


Can anyone help?

Thanks

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interaction of UAC, discoverability, and network profile


After my last clean reinstallation of Win10 I had trouble access my NAS drives. I have everything working now, but I don't really understand what I did and how it works. And I know my future holds more clean installs so I want to understand what I did.

Some background:

1. I'm paranoid so have my UAC set to it's highest value.
2. Accessing my NASs seems to require using the "Private" network profile and setting "Make this PC discoverable".
3. #1 prevents #2 so I lowered the UAC long enough to change the network settings and then set it back up.

1st question: Was the high UAC setting just preventing changing the network setting, or is it preventing something else in network discovery that will bite me in the future? I'm having trouble believing that lowering the UAC just long enough to change the network settings is actually all that was required.

2nd question: I'm not aware of doing anything other than setting "Make this PC discoverable", but suddenly I was using the "Private" network profile. Are these just two ways of saying the same thing, or did I have to do something more to switch to the "Private" profile?

3rd question: If "Make this PC discoverable" and using the Private network profile are not the same thing, which was needed to get network discovery of my NASs working. (Prior to changing the setting, Windows10 could see the devices on my LAN bu no SMB connection could be established.)

 

Windows 10 - Networking

Hi Nizam,

To address your concern, we suggest that you check the firewall settings of WS2.

Also check if the network discovery and file & printer sharing are both enabled.

To enable Network discovery, please follow these steps:

• Open Settings, and click on the Network & Internet icon.
• Click on on the left side, click on the Ethernet connection.
• Turn on Make this PC discoverable.
• Restart the computer.

To Turn On or Off File and Printer Sharing in Network and Sharing Center.

• Open Control Panel, and click on the Network and Sharing Center.
• Click on the Change advanced sharing settings.
• Expand the Private or Guest or Public network profile to turn on or off file and printer sharing.
• Select Turn on file and printer sharing and click on
  Save changes.
• Restart the computer.

Let us know how it goes.

 

How to Change Network to "Private Network" from Public

I imagine that's the first place everybody looks.

In my case, after installing CreatorsUpdate the "Make This PC Discoverable" was simply absent. I've tried everything suggested elsewhere - 'forgetting" the Network, resetting the adapter, modifying "Network List Manager Policies" in gpedit and "Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkList\Profiles\ " in regedit.

Powershell option is the only thing that finally helped.