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    From Robert Peirce@21:1/5 to All on Sun May 16 17:52:43 2021
    As far as I know nothing has changed. However the PC shows up in
    locations and I can access it with VNC but if I double-click on it in
    locations or use connect to server with name or IP address it won't
    connect and I get the following error message:

    There was a problem connecting to the
    server "name".

    This server may not exist or it is unavailable at this
    time. Check the server name or IP address, check
    your network connection, and then try again.




    This used to work and I don't know why VNC works and this doesn't.

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  • From Robert Peirce@21:1/5 to Robert Peirce on Tue May 18 17:14:11 2021
    On 5/16/21 5:52 PM, Robert Peirce wrote:
    This used to work and I don't know why VNC works and this doesn't.

    I tried to get info from Google but everything I searched for assumed I
    could never connect to a server when it is actually something that
    worked and changed. It is possible a Windows update affected something
    but I don't know what to check beyond making sure all the Windows drives
    are shared.

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  • From Robert Peirce@21:1/5 to Robert Peirce on Tue May 18 18:13:25 2021
    On 5/18/21 5:14 PM, Robert Peirce wrote:
    On 5/16/21 5:52 PM, Robert Peirce wrote:
    This used to work and I don't know why VNC works and this doesn't.

    I tried to get info from Google but everything I searched for assumed I
    could never connect to a server when it is actually something that
    worked and changed.  It is possible a Windows update affected something
    but I don't know what to check beyond making sure all the Windows drives
    are shared.

    I got it working. Rebooting the computers didn't help so I rebooted the router. Then I lost my internet connection. Then I unplugged my
    repeaters and everything came back. I plugged the repeaters back in and
    all seems well.

    Too many things to keep track of!!!

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  • From Jolly Roger@21:1/5 to Robert Peirce on Tue May 18 22:40:37 2021
    On 2021-05-18, Robert Peirce <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 5/18/21 5:14 PM, Robert Peirce wrote:
    On 5/16/21 5:52 PM, Robert Peirce wrote:
    This used to work and I don't know why VNC works and this doesn't.

    I tried to get info from Google but everything I searched for assumed
    I could never connect to a server when it is actually something that
    worked and changed.  It is possible a Windows update affected
    something but I don't know what to check beyond making sure all the
    Windows drives are shared.

    I got it working. Rebooting the computers didn't help so I rebooted
    the router. Then I lost my internet connection. Then I unplugged my repeaters and everything came back. I plugged the repeaters back in
    and all seems well.

    Too many things to keep track of!!!

    IIRC, the last time you posted about having trouble connecting to shared volumes (at that time it was a Mac shared volume), your router was at
    fault.

    You may want to consider getting a better router, or at the very least
    get used to rebooting your router as an initial troubleshooting step
    before asking for help. ; )

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    JR

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