Hi I'm not sure if you've resolved your laptop connectivity issues yet but reading the thread reminded of a similar issue I had with a windows tablet - also a 2.4GHz only adapter.

It seems that...

The server side was already enabled according to the registry entries for it. The SMB client/workstation must have been enabled/running before else I'd have never seen the Win 7 pc on the network.
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Well, it only seems like I've gone and bloody fixed it :D

To cut a long story short, the one thing I hadn't tried was running the "turning on the SMB client protocols" CMD line entries detailed in...

Yeah, I assumed it was something of this nature. However I have gone through every Lanmanserver/workstation, TCPIP,NetBios,NetBT and SMB setting I can think of/find out about with the same result :-/...

Go into Control Panel>Network and Internet>Network and sharing centre

Then from the menu on the left select select 'Change adapter settings'

Single click on the one you want to rename and a new...

No there's not.

YT has always been a bit of a pain on VM as they use their own cache servers for popular(?) YT content.

To get around this you can block these cache servers at your router if it allows, there used...

This was tricky to summarize in the title so:-

I have a Win 7 pc running as an ftp server and NAS on my network plugged into one of the LAN ports of my router. Normally this is in hibernation mode...

Hi, I had a similar issue a while back, I posted my resolution here it may help.

The point I was making is that I now realise it only worked previously because I had the same username/password on each machine (there aren't any other users I just like like to have a P/W protected...

Hi, I created a thread with a similar problem here

shares on Win 7 PC - Windows 10 Forums

I have now resolved this issue which "may" help other users who are having issues accessing shares on...