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Win 10 home networking
On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 15:18:53 -0400, Paul
wrote: Charlie Hoffpauir wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 16:05:08 -0400, Paul wrote: Charlie Hoffpauir wrote: Yes, it's becoming clearer that the Thinkpad, also the most recent addition, is the problem. I can access the server or any other computer from any device except the Thinkpad. But the Thinkpad can ONLY access my desktop (GB) computer. In fact, since I have access to everyone on all the devices set, it can see everything on GB but nothing on any other device. This really puzzles me.... Thanks for all the comments and suggestions, but this is really getting out of my limited understanding of networking. When you make the connection, is it asking for username/password ? And then after that, you can't access anything on the volume ? Paul From the Thinkpad, I ask to view files on wife's computer: \\JoAnn-pc Windows then displays the printer that's attached to JoAnn-pc and all the drive letters assigned, and also certain folders like Users. However if I try to actually look at the contents of any of the drives, for example i, I get the message "windows cannot access \\joann-pc\i You do not have permission fo access \\joann-pc\i. Contact your network administrator to request access. However, JoAnn-pc is set up for access by "everyone", and indeed I can view the files from other computers on the network, both connected by wireless and by cable. Another bit of information. If at the stage where the drive letters are displayed, I try to look at the folder Users, I can open that folder and look at all the files under the folder Public. And I just tried to copy a file to the folder Public and confirmed that I can do that. File sharing has more controls than the StarShipEnterprise. In this example, is a tick box for "Use user accounts and passwords to connect to other computers" https://i.stack.imgur.com/Htjxu.png And complicated by the fact that most of the on-line examples are for back when windows used Homegroup. Which is now gone. At the other end, the JoAnn-pc, does the JoAnn account use a password ? Is it an empty password ? Perhaps, if the client machine trying to contact the JoAnn-pc server is Windows 10, it will get into a tizzy about "security" and insist on a password. Yes, wife's computer has it's own password.... yet I can "connect" to it with all of my other computers, and read and write files to it with some, all the while using only "My" Microsoft login password. There are enough tick boxes in those stupid interfaces, and various "features" in the OSes, to keep you busy testing for weeks... ******* And the kooky answer of the week award goes to this thread, where a Win10 machine refuses to access a second machine, unless a *local* credential on the client machine is used. Versus the remote account username and password we would normally enter. Makes no sense at all. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...b-21b5ab2b3d02 Yet another solution that only applies to older versions that use Homegroup. BTW, everything here worked properly back then. ******* I've tried to debug some of these using Wireshark, but it doesn't have a detailed enough "dissector" to tell you exactly what is going on. There's a bitmap field for example, that it doesn't decode and that's the one you want info about. The sharing failure I was debugging was WinXP client and Win10 server, where the Win10 server sends back a "Need More Info" error message. Which could mean... just about anything. Paul I'll probably just accept things the way they are, since all computers can now send and receive from the file server. Since the wife's computer is backed up to the server nightly, and the Thinkpad can get files from there if needed. In reading the MS help files that appear to be post Homegroup, it appears that MS wants me to just put all my files in their cloud, rather than share from computer to computer. That's totally unworkable for me, since my internet traffic is metered (and expensive) and our files are multi-terrabyte in size. |
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Win 10 home networking
On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 19:25:36 -0500, Charlie Hoffpauir
wrote: In reading the MS help files that appear to be post Homegroup, it appears that MS wants me to just put all my files in their cloud, rather than share from computer to computer. That's totally unworkable for me, since my internet traffic is metered (and expensive) and our files are multi-terrabyte in size. With the *nix subcoded Android-type OS increasingly serving for the many as dumbed-down computer, that and what MSFT's more of late has to show for profit statements, is favorably to account their following alongside a contemporary effort and shift into cloud modeling. The Chinese alone account for sixty-percent of a world computer power in handheld usages. All within the past couple years, I vaguely recall a MSFT press release: That since that's where the writing goes on the wall, that's where we, MSFT, will be. MSFT hasn't the time and focus traditionally devoted to a concerned public subscription nor its issues with our OS. Windows 10 is then the ultimate WYSIWYG. Why, just last evening I stumbled into an after-effect of Intel's, the successors to Celerons and Atom, and a direct consequence of handhelds. The processor I was looking at ran at the latest fab specs for 10-watts draw, at its highest modeling build of 2.5GHz, spread across four cores. It needs no cooling other than a passive heatsink mount. I haven't researched an architectural provision of OPCODE sets, nor would I necessarily put outside an Intel/MSFT allegiance for hardware support specific to any further benefits, for a requisite update only then to be derived by running that particular processor on a Windows 10 platform. Cute as hell, though, for what I'd normally might expect of an Intel. Gigabyte was packaging them in "the works" for a total subsystem of a Gigabyte MB, Intel CPU, Case, PS, & memory, at a sub-$100US entry level. Not just any ordinary mini-ITX factor, but the definitive shoebox or kitten-litter computer. |
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