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Win 10 File Sharing Not working after 17134 update
I've got a mixed network - a few Win 10 machines and a few Linux Mint 18.x machines. Ten machines in all.
File sharing has been working fine, for the most part.
After the recent update, some of the Win10 systems can't see any of the other computers, but there is something odd.
Some of the Linux systems can see the Win10 system[s] with no problem. For example, I copy Images from a Windows 10 machine to a Small linux box that acts as a Picture frame with a 32" monitor. No problem. This continues to work as it has for a long time. Drive shared read-only from Win 10 system. Reach over from Linux box to get images. Still works after 17134 update on Win 10.
But this same Win 10 machine only sees itself. It can't even see - using the file browser - the machine that can see it, even right after the Linux machine copied files from it.
And another thing. A Linux machine that is mostly off the net could not see any of the Win 10 machines. But it could see the Linux machines. I found this,
[SOLVED] Error connecting windows share (SMB, UFW kernel 4.8) - Linux Mint Forums
and applied the fix to the linux box mentioned at the end of this post. And voila. It can see the win 10 boxes. But this same win 10 system mentioned above cannot see it.
So do we know that Win 10 SMB is basically broken. Not only for Linux, but also for Win 10 itself?
Anybody know a fix that does not involve renaming all the computers? That is nonsense and I will carry thumb drives before I change all the names of my 10 computers. Win 10 will eventually make this work with the same computer names.
BTW, I have not "Joined any HOMEGROUPS" or whatever that bad idea was called now that it's out of the system. And all my machines are on the WORKGROUP network.
Thanks so much,
wg