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[Robo_Pi]

I think that your main issue is a NetBIOS resolution issue on your network. Here are some more basic things you should try:

Code:

sudo apt-get install nmbd
sudo service nmbd start

I'll look into that.  But I think I have some issues on my Windows computers as well.  I may have more than one problem going on.

Of course, make sure you do not have a 3rd party firewall in windows either and if you do, then turn it off.

I'm just using whatever came with Windows 10.    I guess it's called "Windows Defender Firewall".  I haven't really done any special adjustments to it.  But I did turn it off for a while to try that, and that didn't seem to help.  I don't like leaving it off because I don't wan to leave myself open to getting some virus or something. 

On a side note, I am learning how to use Sockets which is my next step up in robot communications.  And I noticed that when I write a socket program Windows Defender asks me if I want to give it special firewall privileges when I go to run it.  Which I do.  But I'm not using sockets right now.  Right now I'm just trying to communicate with the robots using text files and FileSystemWatcher.

I'll upgrade to using socket later. After I learn more about how to use them.  They are complicated when it comes to programming because you need to use Delegates and Lamba functions in order to do other things while the socket server is running.  So I'm learning all about multithreading techniques. I'm getting there, but I have a lot to learn before I get that all ironed out.

Right now I just want to communicate by exchanging text files.  That's works really well for my purposes.  I've actually been doing this between Windows computers and it works well.  But I can't get the Raspberry Pi to write me a file.  So that's my big hold up right now.  My robots have Raspberry Pi brains.  ;D