Windows 10 cannot see other computers on network

[tuunade98]

I just recently built a NAS, I've set it up all correctly but for the life of me I cannot see it on the network on my windows 10 pc. My brother and dad's pc on the other hand is able to see the FREENAS on the network and can even see ME on the network, but I cannot see any of them. I've tried almost everything and have no idea what to do next and really need help, all my media is on my win10 pc machine and I would like to be able to put some movies on the NAS, but without being able to see the dam thing on the network, I can't do anything. So can someone really please help me? I'm starting to get really frustrated.

[rEaGeNeReary]

What specifically did you try? That way, people won't suggest stuff here and you'll reply saying "done that".

[tuunade98]

Turned on services through administrative tools, made sure network discovery is turned on, Pinged the freenas and it was able to get replies, tried network mapping the drive but not entirely sure how to and it didn't work(maybe i can get some help on that) and a few other things that i cant really honestly remember. 

 

EDIT: Also turned on the 
"Enabled netbios over tcp/ip" option under the internet and network settings.

[rEaGeNeReary]

2 minutes ago, tuunade98 said:

Turned on services through administrative tools, made sure network discovery is turned on, Pinged the freenas and it was able to get replies, tried network mapping the drive but not entirely sure how to and it didn't work(maybe i can get some help on that) and a few other things that i cant really honestly remember. 

 

EDIT: Also turned on the 
"Enabled netbios over tcp/ip" option under the internet and network settings.

Make connection private (from public) http://winaero.com/blog/change-network-location-type-public-or-private-in-windows-10/

 

Open folders on nas by opening \\nameofnas\ like this

 

 

If you can open it, map the folder to a drive: http://www.wintuts.com/Map-Network-Drive

[tuunade98]

Doesn't work, network is set to private and doing \\FREENAS gives me an error saying WINDOWS cannot access \\FREENAS

[rEaGeNeReary]

1 minute ago, tuunade98 said:

Doesn't work, network is set to private and doing \\FREENAS gives me an error saying WINDOWS cannot access \\FREENAS

other computer can open \\freenas ? Try using its ip address then \\192.168.1.100\. Test it on other computers too.

[tuunade98]

Yeah other computers can see and access the FREENAS, but I cannot. I just tried using the IP address and it comes up with the same error on my win10 pc.

[rEaGeNeReary]

Compare IP address from your computer to other if it's similar. You should be on same network in order to access it. Use same ethernet port of working computer to test if your computer is not similar with the rest.

 

e.g

similar: 192.168.1.50, 192.168.1.200, 192.168.1.150 (subnet masks are 255.255.255.0)

not similar: 192.168.1.50, 192.168.5.200, 169.254.44.129

[tuunade98]

Yeah similar 192.168.0.1 is the default gateway.

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

Change your network options to find local devices?

[tuunade98]

ahh... wheres that under?? Network discovery and all that sharing options is all turned on

[rEaGeNeReary]

27 minutes ago, tuunade98 said:

Yeah similar 192.168.0.1 is the default gateway.

If you can ping that freenas, you should be able to access it via \\freenasname if you have entered a correct username and password unless that freenas server specifically block your IP/only allow the connected PCs to it.

 

Double-check that network discovery setting is applied on the private network profile and not on others.

 

Reboot and try again.

[NeoFrux]

This sounds a lot like either the workgroup of the Win10 machine doesn't match the workgroup set for the others, or else the DNS settings are different on the Win10 machine… Any security software that might be replacing the DHCP-provided DNS? Or is the DNS set to a different server (eg Google's 8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4)? Can you connect to \\FREENAS by IP?

EDIT: Just noticed that you can't access the FREENAS server by IP… Are you on the same subnet / is the subnet mask the same on the Win10 box and FREENAS?

[tuunade98]

Yes the subnet is both the same, im not using freenas anymore, I seriously got fed up with it and am now using windows server 2012 which is much easier for me to use. Although on my windows 10 pc I still cannot see any computers on the network, including the windows server. The subnet on my win10 pc and server is both the same, I checked via ethernet > properties > internet protocol v4 ipv4 and subnet is both the same.