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  • Lost ability to connect to PC from MAC

    From Robert Peirce@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 19 16:51:42 2021
    This used to work. Searching Google only covers if it never worked. I
    can connect from VNC okay but I can no longer mount the PC in finder. I
    can see it but if I try to connect it says Connecting for a while and
    then it says it can't connect because

    The 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.


    The only thing that's different is I did a Windows update on the PC and
    it may have reset something. I have the drives set up for sharing and
    that wasn't changed. Any ideas on what else may have changed?

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  • From Jolly Roger@21:1/5 to Robert Peirce on Tue Apr 20 14:43:50 2021
    On 2021-04-19, Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com> wrote:

    This used to work. Searching Google only covers if it never worked. I
    can connect from VNC okay but I can no longer mount the PC in finder. I
    can see it but if I try to connect it says Connecting for a while and
    then it says it can't connect because

    The 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.

    The only thing that's different is I did a Windows update on the PC and
    it may have reset something. I have the drives set up for sharing and
    that wasn't changed. Any ideas on what else may have changed?

    Try rebooting your router, then rebooting both computers in question.

    Also, try choosing Go > Connect to Server on the Mac end entering the
    current IP address of the Windows computer.

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    JR

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  • From Robert Peirce@21:1/5 to All on Tue Apr 20 11:57:19 2021
    On 4/20/21 10:43 AM, Jolly Roger wrote:

    This started to work again this morning. No idea why. Was able to
    connect from both Macs via Locations->Network

    Try rebooting your router, then rebooting both computers in question.

    Didn't think of rebooting the router since VNC was working fine. Did
    reboot all computers

    Also, try choosing Go > Connect to Server on the Mac end entering the
    current IP address of the Windows computer.

    This was doing the same thing. I use this when the PC doesn't show up
    in Locations->Network. This also started to work again. No idea why.

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  • From Jolly Roger@21:1/5 to Robert Peirce on Tue Apr 20 20:04:57 2021
    On 2021-04-20, Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com> wrote:
    On 4/20/21 10:43 AM, Jolly Roger wrote:

    This started to work again this morning. No idea why. Was able to
    connect from both Macs via Locations->Network

    Try rebooting your router, then rebooting both computers in question.

    Didn't think of rebooting the router since VNC was working fine. Did
    reboot all computers

    Often, problems connecting to computers appearing in the Finder sidebar
    have to do with routing issues having to do with zeroconf/bonjour:

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-configuration_networking>

    Stale entries in the routing table are often the cause. Rebooting the
    router removes those stale entries. Rebooting the computers afterwards
    allows them to refresh their caches as well.

    Also, try choosing Go > Connect to Server on the Mac end entering the
    current IP address of the Windows computer.

    This was doing the same thing. I use this when the PC doesn't show up
    in Locations->Network. This also started to work again. No idea why.

    The router is usually the first suspect in such cases.

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