One would think that if that if the non-existence of a comport on the Win10 machine was the issue, this program should have no comport issues with my XP machine with a genuine comport (which it...

Nope, that didn't work but thanks for the idea

I already have the FTDI drivers installed in the WIn10 computer as I have other programs that use it already.

Hadn't considered the VM idea though, I will give that a try, thanks

So, I have a VERY old legacy program that was written during the late 90's (not by me) and runs just fine on an old Pentium machine I have (running Win98). This program basically plays wav files...

Except I tried rebooting several times with no improvement until I manually entered the network path (\\<Win10 pc name\<share name>. Once that was done, it started working. I just like to know these...

Just curious as to why the XP machine required for a new share as I have DISCOVERY on the Win10 one

Yes, that works. So I rebooted the XP computer and now I see that share just fine.

Thanks!

It doesn't even see the share but sees the other shares (and can access them) on that computer

Settings are the same as the other directories that are shared - Everyone has R/W access (private...

I've been using an older XP machine on my home network for years and have never had a problem with using shares on my "main" Win 10 machine. (Win 10 - Version 1903 Build 18362.592)

I recently had...