Desktop won't show up in Local Network

Coulous · October 30, 2019

Hi everyone,
Today, I ran into an issue. I usually use a lot shared folders via local network, but today my desktop won't show up in local network when I'm on my laptop. But on my phone it is detected. So I guess I can forget about the desktop being the problem. I tried to restart the laptop and nothing changed. What can I do to fix this ?

Thanks.

TheBean · October 30, 2019

so your laptop and phone is wifi and desktop is ethernet?

classic case of the problem being in your router. The wifi network is actually not connected to the LAN ports. so the lan ports can communicate with each other and all the wifi devices can see each other but not between the 2 networks. They are separated.

you might be able to change this in the router configuration but if not, then you would have to get a new router if you really want to do this.

Coulous · October 30, 2019

Thanks for the reply. But my phone, which is on WiFi can connect to my desktop which is on ethernet... I found something and I ran the "net view" command :

- On the desktop it shows me all the devices shared

- On the laptop it says "You can't connect to the file share because it's not secure"

What does this mean ? I could get acces between both devices before, I don't get it...