Windows 10: DIFFERENT WAYS TO ACCESS DIFFERENT WINDOWS MACHINES ON A SAME NETWORK

This article is published, because we have received numerous customer’s queries, complaints, and feedback, that they need an action plan to access different machines on a same network and effective ways to troubleshoot them. In this article, we discussed ways to setup a connection between different machines over a same network and how to troubleshoot such network problems that may encounter while using multiple Windows machines. There are many other ways to connect over different Operating Systems using Windows network and protocols, which we have not discussed in the article, however we will

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Access to UNC path to same machine without network connection - differ in machines

Hi,

I found out that I can access the shared directory pointing to the same machine using UNC path even though, there is no network connection. This behaviour is different another machine, where I cannot access
the shared directory to the same machine using UNC path without network connection.

What is it that making different machines behaving differently in terms of accessing shared directory that points to the same machine when there is not network connection?

Kind regards,

Misbah

 

Access to UNC path to same machine without network connection - differ in machines

Accessing a shared folder without an active network connection is impossible. I suspect you mean "without mapping a share", e.g. like so:

net use K: \\OtherPC\Share1

or

net use \\OtherPC\Share1

In order find out why you are unable to access a shared folder, you need to report what happens when you try. Use the commands you see above in a console screen (cmd.exe).

 

Access to UNC path to same machine without network connection - differ in machines

Sorry, I refuse to believe what you report. If you have neither a wired nor a wireless network connection then you will not be able to access any shares on a different PC. You must looking at data that you store locally. To prove it to yourself, to this:

1. Open the Control Panel / Network and Sharing Center / Change adapter settings.
2. Disable all adapters.
3. Disable your bluetooth connections (if you have any)
4. Check your connectivity.
5. Create a folder on the remote machine.
6. Check if it visible on the local machine.