Win 10 Homegroup - not connecting after switching profile

[conticreative]

Yesterday I did a fresh install of windows 10 on my wife's laptop. Among other things, I connected her laptop and my Win10 desktop to the homegroup. This had never worked reliably when we were both on windows 7 so I was thrilled to see it work flawlessly on windows 10.

However, on my desktop I have two profiles: Work and Gaming. Yesterday I was on my gaming profile when I connected the homegroups.

This morning, without turning off my wife's laptop, I restarted my desktop and logged into the "Work" profile.
The Homegroup is there, but I get the notice that I cannot connect to my wife's laptop. Ditto from her laptop to my desktop: the computer is there, but it cannot connect.

I tried running repair, but it found nothing wrong.

I left the homegroup and rejoined, no dice.

My main question is: what can I do to fix this?

My second question is: did microsoft come up with Homegroups to make fun of us? Because Windows Networking has never been easy or reliable, but Homegroups seem to have all of the worst aspects of regular network sharing without any of the benefits.

 

[abekl]

I think you need to join the homegroup while in the Work profile also. If you are already joined while in the work profile, then leave the homegroup and rejoin.

 

[conticreative]

I think you need to join the homegroup while in the Work profile also. If you are already joined while in the work profile, then leave the homegroup and rejoin.

Yes, I did that but it didn't work so well. Do I have to restart maybe? It didn't need to yesterday when I first joined, but with this thing you never know.

 

[abekl]

Yes, a restart would be good.