Can't connect to another computer on my home network

[Eddie Castle]

Having trouble accessing another computer on a network in my home. They are both running Windows 10 home. Sometimes it works fine, sometimes not at all. I can't seem to figure out what is different on the times it doesn't work. When I go to Windows Explorer and click on network, the other computer is listed, but when I click on it I get a message "network error Windows cannot access \\(name of computer). Check the spelling of the name. Otherwise there might be a problem with your network. Try to identify and resolve network problems, click diagnose." Under details, it reads error code: 0x80070035, the network path was not found. When I click on diagnose, it goes through detecting problems, and then "the remaining repairs require administrator permissions." "Problem found: one or more network articles are missing on this computer." I click on "try these repairs as an administrator." Then, it displays "Troubleshooting has Completed, troubleshooting was unable to automatically fix all of the issues found. You can find more details below. Problem found, one or more network protocols are missing on this computer, not fixed."
Both computers are also on the same HomeGroup, when I try to connect to the other computer through the homegroup, I get the same errors.

The strange thing is, sometimes an hour or so later it will work just fine. Can anybody offer any suggestions?

 

[Kiril_Petkov]

check the IP address on both computers if they are laptops and you are connection to WiFi router and your router have DHCP enable that could cause some issue like you describe. For sure is some network issue. Could you please post the network configuration at your home.

 

[boju]

Hmm yea sounds like its a home group thing, could be wrong. I dislike home group setups and more hassle than it's worth worrying about passwords etc. In a local network don't need it anyway i just leave/delete home group on all my PCs.

 

[Eddie Castle]

check the IP address on both computers if they are laptops and you are connection to WiFi router and your router have DHCP enable that could cause some issue like you describe. For sure is some network issue. Could you please post the network configuration at your home.

I have 2 PCs, one HTPC, and another desktop PC in an office area. They network through a DSL modem/wireless router. The office PC is connected to the DSL modem through an ethernet cable, the other has a wireless adapter. I checked the IP address's of both computers, they both have the same public IP address, the private IP address is the same up until the last number which is different.

Looking at the modem, it does have DHCP enabled. I'm not sure what this is, can't change it at the moment as I can't risk messing up my Internet connection until later today. Is there anything in the DHCP settings I should be looking for?

I set up homegroup because I was hoping it wouldn't have the same problem, unfortunately it seems to be the same.

 

[nigelivey]

check the IP address on both computers if they are laptops and you are connection to WiFi router and your router have DHCP enable that could cause some issue like you describe. For sure is some network issue. Could you please post the network configuration at your home.

I have 2 PCs, one HTPC, and another desktop PC in an office area. They network through a DSL modem/wireless router. The office PC is connected to the DSL modem through an ethernet cable, the other has a wireless adapter. I checked the IP address's of both computers, they both have the same public IP address, the private IP address is the same up until the last number which is different.

Looking at the modem, it does have DHCP enabled. I'm not sure what this is, can't change it at the moment as I can't risk messing up my Internet connection until later today. Is there anything in the DHCP settings I should be looking for?

I set up homegroup because I was hoping it wouldn't have the same problem, unfortunately it seems to be the same.

Ditch homegroup, it's pointless. Leave DHCP on. Is network discovery on on both PC's?

 

[Eddie Castle]

check the IP address on both computers if they are laptops and you are connection to WiFi router and your router have DHCP enable that could cause some issue like you describe. For sure is some network issue. Could you please post the network configuration at your home.

I got it to work this morning. Looked at the DHCP reservation settings in the router, there were several reservations for each PC. I removed all of the duplicate reservations, then set each PC up with a static private IP address. So far it seems to be working very well. Thank you all for your help.