"Network path not found" when trying to access network PC

windows-7 windows-8 network-shares home-networking

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Open Kasperky settings->Firewall-Networks and set LAN to either local or trusted, ensure internet is set to public.

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Violet Giraffe

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Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

Violet Giraffe over 1 year

I have 2 computers: Windows 7 desktop and Windows 8 laptop in a home wi-fi network. They are both configured to use passworded shared file access, not homegroup-based access. Desktop PC can access laptop, but laptop throws "Network path not found" when trying to access the desktop (which is visible in the network on laptop). Ideas?
- Davidenko about 11 years
  
  try to share some folder inside of desktop folder
- LilCodger about 11 years
  
  Try turning the firewall off on the desktop?
- Davidenko about 11 years
  
  @Violet Giraffe: I think you can't share desktop, or maybe it's shown by default but not shared, I didn' check it so I'm not sure. So that's why i said that :) But I know realised that i didn't read the guestion carefully and by desktop he meant desktop pc :D
Violet Giraffe over 10 years

It wasn't that simple. I had to fiddle with firewall tunings and unblock some protocols. Don't remeber the details, but it was fairly obvious once I found firewall settings.