Hey all. I have had weird issue for a bit now. Windows 7 Ultimate explorer is not showing some networked items here at home. They all appear on other machines on my network. For example, my QNAP and Synology devices will not appear on the network at all on this one particular machine, while only some PCs will. Reboots will have no effect. Interestingly enough, mapped network drives to those not appearing in explorer STILL WORK. In addition, if I enter the IP addresses of the affected machines into any browser I can browse to them!! It just seems that windows explorer will not show me these networked devices, but I can manually go to them. Happens in safe mode with networking as well.
Any idea what is broken?
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Last edited by ron spencer; 24th Feb 2017 at 13:36.
'Do I look absolutely divine and regal, and yet at the same time very pretty and rather accessible?' - Queenie -
'Do I look absolutely divine and regal, and yet at the same time very pretty and rather accessible?' - Queenie
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Are you using the standard Windows Firewall ? Network Discovery turned on ?
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'Do I look absolutely divine and regal, and yet at the same time very pretty and rather accessible?' - Queenie
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'Do I look absolutely divine and regal, and yet at the same time very pretty and rather accessible?' - Queenie
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I did have some problems in windows explorer, like not re-connecting networkdrives. there always was a red cross on the networkshares.
never find a solution, so now i make my networkshares through a batch file with net use:
@echo off
REM **MAP DRIVE X: ON STARTUP**
REM delay execution for 10 seconds (wait for networking to load)
REM see http://www.robvanderwoude.com/wait.php#PING for more info
net use /persistent:no
cls
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 11 >NUl
REM disconnect all existing mapped drives
net use * /delete /yes
cls
REM map x: drive to \\server\share
net use Z: \\servername\share
cls
net use Y: \\servername\share
cls
put this in name.cmd, and put it in the users startmenu startup folder -
@jan5678 That is cool! I may try that!! It is so bizarre that I can create network shares and access network devices via direct IP usage, but Windows explorer seems to be crapping out and not finding anything.
'Do I look absolutely divine and regal, and yet at the same time very pretty and rather accessible?' - Queenie -
Same oddity here,but it became no problem as soon as I realized I can type it into that explorer's command line, like: \\name_of_the_server
or using browser and IP works as well like you do -
Here's the fix for windows red X on network drives. This will also speedup file transfers on a Gigabit network
Add to batch file
Run batch file as an admin
netsh interface tcp set global autotuning=disabled
netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal
netsh interface tcp set global chimney=disabled
netsh interface tcp set global rss=disabled -
Last edited by ron spencer; 24th Feb 2017 at 21:48.
'Do I look absolutely divine and regal, and yet at the same time very pretty and rather accessible?' - Queenie -
You just need to run it one time. The settings are saved. I have been running this script on all Windows computer since Win7 came out. On clients and on servers
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You are on the same Domain/Workgroup as the other network devices? Everything spelt correctly? (Wouldn't be the first time I did this!)
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What TimA-C said. Also check if WINS on the Windows PC is pointing to the same WINS server as the other devices on your network. Typically, WINS server is running on the router.
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