[SOLVED] Configuring Windows To Access Moode USB Drive

[kurek]

You probably ought to be asking on some MS Windows forum. I don't pretend to be a MS support person. Here's a few things to think about.

Indeed - it's been a surprisingly common question across a ton of them! Spent a fair number of hours today reading and trying solutions where they existed on the client side (Windows) - no reason to suspect the "server" side since it's accessible to at least one client.

Well.. this is why I posted here in the chit-chat section and not the tech support section since Moode is working as it should

Have you ensured all your hosts are part of the same work group (traditionally "WORK GROUP")?

Yes, both the working computer & the misbehaving ones are in a workgroup called WORKGROUP

Have you tried pinging your moOde player from the misbehaving PCs to be sure it can be reached?

I can access the moode player's web UI from the browser on those devices, so a ping would not likely reveal more information than that - but yeah good call to make sure it's reachable by any means.

Have you tried using the "net" commands from the command line of your PCs, in particular something like "net view \\moode" ?

I had not before now, but the result is an error 53 "network path not found" on the misbehaving computers. On the one behaving computer it instantly produces a list of the shared directories.

As for installing the windows subsystem for linux... I'm a clown when it comes to linux so that would not speed me up

Well, looks like I still have some work to do. Bad news is that the working Windows 10 machine is slated for retirement so I'd rather not have to rely on a solution like "well just use the one that works to manage it" .

One other thing I did check, both the working computer and the non-working ones are running the same version number of Windows 10. Both working/not working also have netbios enabled. Noting that in here just in case future people search this thread hoping for answers.

Cheers!