How to force windows 10 to refresh network location
I have a raspberry pi with Samba share and attached piDrive. I currently backup from windows to that networked drive (old address 192.168.1.117).
I've forced the pi to use eth0 only and assigned a static IP address.
After a samba restart and PC restart, the pi3 shows as a network device (\RASPBERRYPI3) however on clicking I get 'not found' and an 0x80070035 error.
If I manually add the new IP address to a mapped drive, it works fine (192.168.1.199) and I've successfully added it as a new drive. The issue is windows won't allow me to backup using the built in backup feature as it will only allow a network browseable location (the other computers on the network \raspberrypi3). Is there anyway I can force this to rescan for the new IP address or reset it in some way to allow access?
Many thanks,
Luke
user17214511 Answer
The ONLY way I could do this after 6 hours of tinkering was to change the raspberry pi hostname. This was much easier than anything else, despite having to resolve a few issues on the pi side. I did try changing it initially (windows found and accessed no trouble) then changing it back, but again windows couldnt find it? Eventually I just opted for sticking with the changed name and resolved the Pi-side issues. Not ideal but it was the only thing that would work for me.
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