Topic: Home PC Network sees, but can\’t connect to other network pcs. @ AskWoody

I have 2 Windows 10 Pro 64bit machines, both running Windows v1909 Build 18363.628  At some point last week, I began getting a ‘permissions error’ on each machine when trying to connect to the other.  I’m hoping someone on the forum can see something I’m missing and walk me through the ‘fix’ required to get things operational again.

First, I’ve not made any changes (knowingly) to either machine.  No new software, AV, or configuration changes.  I’ve enabled the sharing for both public and private networks (my home network is private, but I tried moving both to public to see if that would help to no avail), and I’ve disabled password protected sharing.  I’ve insured that SMB sharing is enabled on both machines in the windows features.  I’ve insured that the following services are all set to automatically start (delayed) on both machines.

• Function Discovery Provider Host (FDPHost)
• Function Discovery Resource Publication (FDResPub)
• Network Connections (NetMan)
• UPnP Device Host (UPnPHost)
• Peer Name Resolution Protocol (PNRPSvc)
• Peer Networking Grouping (P2PSvc)
• Peer Networking Identity Manager (P2PIMSvc)

Yet, I now get this error whether I’m attempting to connect to machine 2 from machine 1 or vice versa;

Network Error

Windows cannot access \\Machine Name\drive

You do not have permission to access \\Machine Name\drive.  Contact your network administrator to request access.

I am an admin on both machines.

If anyone has any ideas, I’m all ears.  I won’t say anything disparaging about my good friends at Microsoft, but it appears that I’m not the only person having frustrations simply trying to get 2 machines at home to actually be used as a home network.  Again, I appreciate any constructive suggestions.

regards,

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