I have never used HomeGroup either. What I am doing to not use the HomeGroup is to select at Advanced Sharing/HomeGroup connection, "Use user accounts and passwords to . . . " I never pay attention...

That is a lot of reading for me. It appears MS started changes about SMB even with W7. As I stated previously on this thread that I do not see any problem if W8.1 is running on networked PCs. ...

Eagle51,

As far as networking is concerned, present situation with W10 v.1709 reminds me of Windows 95 days. Since Windows 2000, I have had hardly any home networking problem. I temporarily...

Yes, more than once.

I ran PowerShell as Administrator and it succeeded.
Still only a PC started first is getting shares listed under "Network"
I wonder what I did wrong?

I did copy/paste on the two PCs this time and one success and one failure.

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The third one returned "[SC] ChangeServiceConfig FAILED 1059"

It's been 30 minutes since B and C started but no shares show up on these PCs. I assume that the shares are only displayed on A which being the master browser.
Yes, by using \\PCNAME or \\IPADDRESS...

I followed the above and after shutting down A, B and C, I started A first, and B and C. A change I see is that the master browser is now on A which was on B. And the network shares are not shown on...

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Previously, I used Task Manager to look for those in the services but overlooked because I looked the list under "Name" not "Description". Anyway those are turned on and running.



I...

It lists two of them and the one where the utility is running is not listed. It indicates B is the Master Browser.

Regarding mapping network drive, it does not appear appropriate for my use pattern. I appreciate the suggestion anyway.
I could not find "Function Discovery Provider Host" nor "Function Discovery...

Yes



Ping goes through in either way.



I did, which resulted in that now only one of the three pcs is seen by each pc which means one of them see none except itself under the...

There is one pc which can see all other pcs but cannot be seen from others.
Info on the problem PC:
OS: W10 Pro v.1709 b.16299.192
Network: Password protected sharing.

I tried resetting...