Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
I've been 'upgrading' all the computers here to Win10 Pro.

When they were Win7 on a homegroup, they all shared files easily.

I have cabled LAN, Wi-Fi and a Wi-Fi range extender.
If any two are on say the same Wi-Fi, they share files normally. But I'd
not need an extender if this covered all the house. With one on the main
router Wi-Fi and one on the range extender (TP Link), can't share. Same
when one is on the cable LAN and another on Wi-Fi.

Google did give a work round, but involved pages and pages of
reconfiguring near everything onto static IP addresses and so on.

Is it really the case that what I'm trying to do is outside the norm of a
modern operating system?


http://www.unixwiz.net/tools/nbtscan.html

http://www.unixwiz.net/tools/nbtscan-1.0.35.exe

nbtscan 192.168.1.0/24

192.168.1.101 WORKGROUP\BOB SHARING
192.168.1.102 WORKGROUP\BLUEWAVE SHARING
*timeout (normal end of scan)

You can use that to see which machines are in the
same workgroup. You can change the network specification,
the netmask, to scan a larger portion of your local net.
For example, 192.168.1.0/16 would scan all of 192.168.x.x .

Say that your router was 192.168.1.0/24 and the
nbtscan command was 192.168.1.0/16 , then nbtscan
would only have 192.168.1.x entries and 192.168.2.x
or higher would be missing from the output.

In any case, that's a toy you can play with.

Paul