Cannot see other computers network windows 7

Occasionally the workstations exhibiting these symptoms show errors that their connection to the FreeNAS server has failed and only rebooting resolves the issue. All other workstations on the network use identical Windows 7 Professional installations and never have these problems. I've checked all machines and they're not using Home Groups. Temporarily disabling the firewall on the workstations with the issue made no difference, so I know this has nothing to do with the firewall settings.

Machines "see" each order by virtue of the fact that they will regularly broadcast their presence to the other computers in their Workgroup. This has nothing to do with the actual connectivity itself. Or do "Connect network drive" by manually entering the path. What is worrying are the dropped connections. This indicates that something strange is going on with those particular machines. A common cause of such issues is power-management.

Often Windows 7 will default to disabling the LAN adapter temporarily while "saving power". This doesn't always work well resulting in just the sort of disconnect behavior that you are seeing. So first check if the NIC driver has a Power-management setting and disable it if it is on. If there is no such setting it is disabled anyway. Another possibility is a NIC with a flaky driver. Sometimes the driver is perfectly fine, but the TCP checksum off-loading function if present is causing more problems than it's worth.

I had the same problem on W7pro, but restarting Computer browser service didn't help. I found my fix here by enabling smbv1 and smbv2 Run command prompt as Administrator. As you say, all others machines are using the same Windows installation and don't have the same problem.

I hope this may work for you. It is also better then using an ip address as this is when this problem tends to show up when rebooting a complete network ip address can change and it can take afew minutes to an hour or a day for network neighbor hood to wake up sometimes As I said this is an intermittent problem and relatively rare i have found most home networking is better to use the computer name rather then its ip address. I use workgroup sharing and avoid home, office or public.

I just want to share my workgroup files, folders and drives and configure my own permissions and security settings from a workgroup and be free of Microsofts way of doing things. Apple devices are usually very good at detecting other Apple devices, thanks to the Apple Bonjour networking service, and it can usually detect other Windows and Linux PCs, too. If you want to see other computers on macOS, you can do this by clicking the Network tab in the core macOS Finder app.

Once checked, you should be able to see a Connected servers tab in Finder, where your connected PC will be shown for you to access. In the Network settings menu, check your connection type in the left-hand menu—the icon next to your connection should be green. To check if your PC can see other devices, you can use the arp-scan network scanning tool to scan your network for devices instead.

This will list all available devices on your network. A list of available devices on your network will be listed, with IP addresses, MAC addresses, and device types shown. If it fails, it will likely indicate a problem with your overall network configuration or firewall.

You can take the usual steps physical checks and connection tests to try to resolve these. Me too Me to what? You are also now vulnerable? I am experiencing same issue and can't get rid of the random connections even if now I am a big expert several restarts on each machine By the way thanks for which help exactly? Thursday, December 14, PM. Saturday, December 16, AM. If I turn off SMB 1. Here's the text from the troubleshooter when SMB 1. Edited by glnzglnz Saturday, December 16, PM.

Saturday, December 16, PM. Dear Mr. Happy, I have a small business network and only the first Windows 10 machine to log onto the network got to see other computers and devises on the network, not the others. This is a basic feature of Win XP, Vista, 7, 8, Why is MS dragging its feet? Also, a "Network Reset" has not helped. Sunday, December 17, AM.

Monday, December 18, AM. Well, I replied yesterday, but, reply has not been posted. I wonder what thread this is supposed to be attached to?

Tuesday, December 19, PM. NoneAndOne [Quote]If you know of any great tools for browsing Workgroups that don't rely on the older protocols I'd be happy to hear from you.

Tuesday, December 26, AM. Proposed as answer by jbpiligrim Friday, May 4, AM. Friday, December 29, PM. It's great that worked for you, but what does it even mean? What the hell? Monday, January 8, PM. I found that I needed to restart both the Function Discovery Provider and Function Discovery Host services on the source and target machines.

Not a solution to the problem but an effective work around. Monday, January 15, PM. The folders are now permanently visible in the Explorer tree until I decide to disconnect them. Tuesday, January 16, AM. What solved it? I think Windows 10 has major problems. Wednesday, January 17, PM. Edited by graylane Friday, January 19, PM. Friday, January 19, PM. This worked for me! Now I can finally connect back to my network share and other PC's.

Thanks dude!! Sunday, January 21, AM. This led me to the solution to my problem, the problem was: Windows 10 upgrade applied to 2 office networked PCs that had previously connected to each other and shared files fine under win 10 Wednesday, January 24, AM. Proposed as answer by denpag Friday, January 26, PM. Friday, January 26, PM. This worked for me. Sunday, January 28, PM. Hello, It seems that this might be the fix for some, but to me it looks like Windows is only having this issue with specific NIC's.

What makes me think that? Tuesday, January 30, PM. Wednesday, January 31, PM. Sunday, February 11, AM. I have searched so many sites for an answer to this problem and nothing helped There is a "Network reset" option on the bottom of the Network Settings Status page. It reinstalls all network related drivers and then reboots your system. Wednesday, February 14, PM. Hi This worked for me Thank You! Thanks Again!! Saturday, February 17, AM. The Network reset worked for me after all else failed.

Tuesday, February 20, AM. Tuesday, February 20, PM. Computers without any QuickBooks server roles were repaired with the Network Reset previously mentioned: 1. Navigate to the folder containing the folder with the QB company file s , 2.

Right click and open the sub-folder's Preferences and open the Security tab and click "Advanced", 3. Saturday, February 24, PM. This fixed the issue for me. Thank you! Sunday, February 25, PM. I used this video and it fixed everything. Tuesday, February 27, AM. Here is how I fixed that exact problem. Open start menu, type "Windows Features. Make sure that SMB 1. Now I see everybody. Thursday, March 1, PM.

Yes but, you have exposed your PC to possible harm. Friday, March 2, PM. Saturday, March 3, PM. Absolutely Mirosoft Experts have no answer for this issue it was the same in the old days. The computder browser service has always been flakey. You can have all the correct options and it still doesn't work then on a whim one day it does.

This is not modern computing it drives you hairless. Thursday, March 8, PM. I have that selected and still have net browser issues, its the wonderful wacky world of Redmond left hand doesn't even know if it has a right hand.

Just find something simple and make it as complex as possible. Rememder when DOS worked great its been down hill ever since, Plenty of bells and whistles idiotic games and gizmos.

Is Exel better the no it dam well isn't. Hmm that is the only tip that has worked on my machine, fingers crossed. Actually only a partial fix when I point at a network computer it appears under the Network List in this PC but when you add another it too appears in the list. Great you think. But if you click on the Network icon they vanish again. So that process doesnt work. Still if you keep off the Network refresh they do stay visible. Hey ho. This is 'Microsoft Technet' on 'Microsoft.

I've got the same problem. No LAN machines visible. Looks very bad to me. Very bad. I am astonished, frankly, I am. What should I do? Any ideas? Sunday, March 18, AM. This solved my problem. Perhaps you can try it out. Monday, March 19, AM. Wednesday, March 21, AM. Me too! But why, when and how had it been turned OFF? Not by me! Thursday, March 22, PM. So, can anyone help me with a not-too-technical fix?

Saturday, March 24, AM. SMB 1. Saturday, March 24, PM. Just a new member of the club of frustration. I just want to play some Lan games with both devices, and this is just very frustrating for me. Saturday, March 31, PM. This certainly helped me. I don't know that it alone was sufficient, because it was the last thing I tried after just about everything else, including "netcfg -d" from a command prompt.

Thursday, April 5, AM. Same problem. NO answers. Thursday, April 5, PM. After weeks of having this problem of not being able to see other computers, I followed these instructions and I can now see all of my network computers, printers and storage devices Tuesday, April 10, PM. Needs more research when time allows. Wednesday, April 11, AM. Worked for me! Sunday, April 15, PM. This is nearly necro posting but i would like to thank you, This fixed my not being able to see people on my network perfectly.

We did it on both our pcs and did a quick reset. Everything works fine again :. Wednesday, April 18, PM. Random and unfixed. Monday, April 23, AM. This worked for me and I was able to leave SMB turned off. Thursday, April 26, AM. Netcfg -d worked for me.

Friday, May 4, AM. Thursday, May 10, PM. I had same issues with not seeing other computers on the network. I went to check this as suggested and sure enough, my SMB 1. I checked the box, restarted, and then I was able to see the other computers. Saturday, May 12, PM. I have had this issue on my Network for months on half of my PCs I obviously didn't ask the right question on the net in the past.

This fixed it for me! Thanks very much. Sunday, May 20, AM. Sunday, May 20, PM. Proposed as answer by adminapdesign Monday, May 21, PM.

Monday, May 21, PM. You are brilliant and it's brilliantly simple Your reward - assuming you are an up and coming geek KISS always best - Made me - able to retire early Tuesday, May 22, PM. Sunday, May 27, PM. Friday, June 1, AM. Thank you!!! THIS solution worked for me but I have 2 services that I restarted beggining with the name Function: Function Discovery Provider Host and Function Discovery Resource Publication I do not know if I needed to start the second one but someone in a later post referenced 2 services starting with the word "Function" so I figured what the heck and started both.

Saturday, June 2, AM. Saturday, June 2, PM. Then my second computer instantly became visible and all my shared folders became accessible, hurray. God I wish I'd never installed that bloody update! Nothing but problems with the network ever since. Sunday, June 3, PM. Dude thanks. IPv6 was selected in my case and once I disabled it I was able to find my router and other PC on the network. Thanks a lot. Wednesday, June 6, AM. This is unacceptable, i am considering use this OS for games only and use Fedora for work.

Wednesday, June 6, PM. Proposed as answer by paranoid0 Thursday, June 7, AM. Thursday, June 7, AM. After trying most of the suggestions in this and other forums without success, I have solved it as follows: i It turned out that the laptop had a misspelling in its workgroup name.

There are no stupid rats, only misguided students. Edited by seglea Thursday, June 7, PM. Thursday, June 7, PM. Type services. START all four services! Friday, June 8, PM. Did not work on my Win 10 machines. The desktop is able to transfer files to the laptop through the public folders because the laptop computer is visible in its network structure.

The laptop can no longer find the desktop in its network structure although it was visible before the desktop was upgraded to Windows All network sharing settings have been set to permissible states for all network options on both computers and all firewalls have been neutralized. Desktop has Norton Security Suite as well as Windows firewalls. All Windows 10 updates are current on both computers. Normal troubleshooting techniques do not address the laptop's inability to find the desktop because they are on separate networks.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get the laptop to recognize the recently upgraded desktop? Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums. I understand that you are not able to see the other computer on network. We appreciate your efforts in troubleshooting the issue and providing us the detailed information about the issue.

I suggest you follow the below given steps and check if that resolves the issue. Method Method 2: Enable SMB 1. This will open Run. Alternatively, you can go to Start and search for Run.