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Devices dropping from network
Any ideas please? I am running small home network, comprising of 2 x Microsoft Windows 11 laptops, 1 x Raspberry pi file servers running samba share, 1 x Raspberry pi running Urbackup server with 2 ...
Yes, so I was correct. I Task Manager killed the Explorer.exe process and restarted it and now all my servers show up as they should in Explorer under the Network folder. But that was the solution this time for this version of the problem. I figured if the command line net view could see them, but explorer couldn't, it was explorer getting confused. As I said, in general, I find that entire thing unreliable and an unfortunate networking time waster with Windows. 😞
Give me Unix any day
Right, I figured restarting Explorer was not going to help your problem. Here's a few links that might have a solution.
https://appuals.com/how-to-fix-network-discovery-not-working-on-windows-10/
https://www.makeuseof.com/fix-network-discovery-not-working-windows-10/
thanks, i am on windows 11 but the concepts are the same.
i have tries these find these, i also found them when googling
- Ok. Rebuilt wife's laptop. Still no joy
Now very confused.
When I set the Orbi back to factory settings, does this completely reset everything? Manual says top level bits? Wondered if any bitfender / Armour changes are still set?