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   On Wed, 12/17/2025 11:35 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:   
   > Fokke Nauta  wrote:   
   >> On 17/12/2025 15:19, Frank Slootweg wrote:   
   >>> Fokke Nauta  wrote:   
   >>>> On 16/12/2025 17:22, Frank Slootweg wrote:   
   >>>>> Paul  wrote:   
   >>>>> [...]   
   >>>>>> Since the error at the moment, is one of Network Path Not Found,   
   >>>>>> I don't think it is getting tested on credentials just yet. First   
   >>>>>> it has to connect, before it can be rejected on credentials :-)   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>     I agree [1]. Coming to think of it, could it be something simple as   
   >>>>> the workgroup being inconsistent accross his network? I.e. the computer   
   >>>>> name and share name could be correct, but in the wrong workgroup.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> [1] The error *message* is actually "The network path was not found."   
   >>>>   
   >>>> We have only one workgroup. One private network with 3 W10 pc's and 2   
   >>>> W11 laptops. All W10 pc's can see eachother and open their shares. We   
   >>>> can see the 2 W11 laptops, but can't open them.   
   >>>   
   >>>    The point isn't that you have only one workgroup, but whether the   
   >>> workgroup is correctly set on all systems, especially on the two Windows   
   >>> 11 laptops, which "don't work" and are apparently relatively new.   
   >>   
   >> There are many settings on the laptops which I checked, and these are OK.   
   >   
   >   You keep saying that, but there must be something set incorrectly,   
   > because it used to work and now it doesn't.   
   >   
   >   And for example for Paul's  AI generated advice, you say you checked   
   > most of it, but you should not check most of it, but all of it.   
   >   
   >   As I said before, you have the problem (and the (configuration)   
   > information, (error) messages, etc., etc.), we don't, so you will have   
   > to do the work, the checking, etc..   
   >   
   >   As, like most essential information, you haven't mentioned it: Which   
   > shares do you have configured on the Windows 11 laptops and how did you   
   > configure them, i.e. the '[Share...]' settings?   
   >   
      
   Scanning from WALLACE for other file share machines.   
   (I renamed the file so I could see the version on it.)   
      
   > nbtscan-1.0.35.exe 192.168.1.0/24   
   192.168.1.100   WORKGROUP\GREGORE               SHARING   <=== only one other   
   PC running...   
   *timeout (normal end of scan)   
      
   The "24" specifies the netmask in use (scans 256 addresses).   
      
   Not all versions of the program, have the nice output.   
   A Linux version does not state the workgroup value, which   
   in this example is workgroup = WORKGROUP. If my dead WinXP   
   machine was still around, it could be MSHOME.   
      
      http://www.unixwiz.net/tools/nbtscan.html   
      
        Paul   
      
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