Windows 10: My network can't find my computer

I spent the better part of a day "cleaning up" my computer, reduced the size of my Windows folder in half, to free up space on my C: drive.

Today I went to my workshop where I have another computer and needed to check a dimension on a drawing on my office computer which I had mapped a drive letter to on my shop computer. My shop computer couldn't find the drive:



Both computer recognize the computer I use for backups, it's an Ubuntu computer, sitting in my office. My wifes computer couldn't find my computer either, same error.

I was able to get on my office computer from the shop using Remote Desktop.

Any ideas how to get the connections back?

Shop and office are 1903 18362.1016, wife's is 1909 18362.959

:)

 

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.