Windows Flie Sharing Issues, "The network path was not found"

I am about to pull my hair out, been trying to network 2 computers for most the day and still am not having any luck... Here is what I have done, and with the new SMB change im not even sure what is and isnt needed..

I have on both computers, opened sharing to public, private, and all networks, turned network discovery on, turned off password authentication on both boxes. Disabled both firewalls.

They are in the same work group, my desktop, I can sometimes log into the share using the //servername/ but it always prompts me for my password, I do enter it and it connects. However it does not allow me to map to the drive. When I try I get
"the network path was not found"

Also this computer my Desktop, will find my work laptop running windows 7 in the Network tab in file explorer, but not the HTPC, or itself. What is odd is when doing the grant access wizard, I clicked the option to see all shares on PC. Clicked that, and it showed me 4 shares. When I try to open them again I get the
"the network path was not found"
And this is a local share.....

When trying to share folders on the PC's, I tried the normal sharing tab, gave my user accounts, everyone and guest to the all the accounts. After setting this up I cannot access them doing //desktop/ or //htpc/, I get
"The network path is not found"
I tired to force the issue through the "Grant Access" wizard, share the folder then click the option, and no luck either.

On my HTPC in the network tab in file explorer I can see both my work laptop and itself. I can even authenticate into my work laptop.

So I am pretty much at a loss, I honestly just would like to map the shares to each other but I have had no luck getting that to work, I dread setting up winscp for this, but at this point im about to do it, b/c this is beyond enraging.

Before anyone checks in with the mandatory try the search feature I already did and have about 20 tabs open but nothing has directly helped.

Cheers to anyone who can help!!

If the pcs are not on all the time then it will take awhile to find each other. In the mean time you should be able to use the ip ie \\192.168.1.25\sharename note its \\ not //. The second thing is what folder exactley have you shared as when you share you then have to set NTFS permission or you wont be able to access files some folders have special permissions like users folders and system folders

thomaseg1 said:

try Open Control Panel / Programs and Features/ Turn windows features on or off
Scroll down and check SMB 1.0 and try that.
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Yea that was unchecked on the desktop when I was initially tshooting. When I turned that on and rebooted both, didn't change anything....

One thing I noticed on both of them was I don't have the:
· Function Discovery Provider Host
· Function Discovery Resource Publication

Services even installed, but I think that was depreciated in an update...

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Samuria said:

If the pcs are not on all the time then it will take awhile to find each other. In the mean time you should be able to use the ip ie \\192.168.1.25\sharename note its \\ not //. The second thing is what folder exactley have you shared as when you share you then have to set NTFS permission or you wont be able to access files some folders have special permissions like users folders and system folders

Yea that was a typo, its \\desktop\, etc, I have tried using the IP address but no luck using that either.. still getting that "The network path cannot be found" error....

The folders are not special folders, one holds games the other movies, in folders I created with the create new folder option.

bro67 said:

Go through these steps https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...rowser-service if enabling Advanced Sharing from Right click on folder, choose properties and then Sharing tab. Also see Option 2 at Share Files and Folders Over a Network in Windows 10
This tool will help. SMB Scanner Tool

Cheers for the help, but does Windows 10 still use Netboi? I figured that was killed a long time ago but am not a windows admin, so I do not really keep up with it, I just know netboi was plauged with issues.. I cannot find Browstat.exe anywhere but did see Browscon.exe....

On the second part, I went through all that already, and no luck but I did not have these services installed..

· Function Discovery Provider Host
· Function Discovery Resource Publication

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bro67 said:

Go through these steps https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...rowser-service if enabling Advanced Sharing from Right click on folder, choose properties and then Sharing tab. Also see Option 2 at Share Files and Folders Over a Network in Windows 10

This tool will help. SMB Scanner Tool

Trying to figure out the SMB Scanner tool right now, I tired those other steps before coming to the forum >.<...

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So I ran the SMB Scanner tool, here is what I found..

On the HTPC, the one I can kinda connect to, but not Map to, its showing I have SMB 1, 2.02, 2.1, 3.0, 3.0.2 and 3.1.1 allowed on it.

My desktop, its showing "No SMB - Rejected"

So my desktop is not even trying but I have everything turned on. I might disable everything, remove all my shares, reboot. Turn everything back on and try again.

So I guess that is the first thing I can do... On my HTPC I have my user account, which I can authenticate into when I do the \\htpc\, but it always prompts me for a username and password, not the end of the world but for the life of me I cannot see why its doing that, should I remove the user and only have everyone and guest in the authenticated users?

Run this on both pcs does it see them ok and it often kicks it into like note which is master browser NetBScanner - NetBIOS scanner