Recent content by floydl

hsehestedt, THANKS FOR THE HELP! I tried the way you said and sure enough on one setup it worked great. I then moved onto another one and when I would run the command to get profile it wouldn't give anything it acted like the cable wasn't connected even though it was and the network icon even...

I will give this a try tonight, I appreciate your help. It's funny how it just started to be an issue in windows 11.

So two issues gigabit wired only routers, I can't find any at decent prices these units are not allowed to be connected to anything that has wireless potential. Also sometimes even connecting via DHCP it does the same thing until you connect it to internet. Tho I have gotten them working this way.

When windows connects to any network it builds a profile, this profile remembers settings like public, private, ECT. If you use the command netsh lan show profiles it won't show anything until you connect it to the Internet. That is also the time that it allows you to change if it's private or...

Yes they are windows 11 pro. I have tried with a cross over cable as well. Once you put in settings it never builds a profile so you can't change it from public to private. The first time I ran into this I just temporarily connected the switch to the router then put in static ips that where...

Ok, so I have several systems that can't use Internet but need to file share. So my solution is set PC one static to say 192.168.55.2 then set PC two to 192.168.55.3. PC 1 and 2 are connected via Ethernet cable to a gigabit switch. In windows 10 and older it always worked great I could share...