On my previous router, I had it all setup so I go into iPhone > Files app > Connect to Server > and I had a 192 type smb address thingie setup so I could view certain Users’ directories (Windows elven11 laptop) and exchange files between the two devices and even make actual changes like deleting shit and creating new folders or renaming or moving stuff around.
But thats all gone now 😭
Please, so much My night depends on a reddy network
The IP address of the machine you’re connecting to has probably changed. If the previous had a DHCP lease, that wouldn’t migrate with the new router.
Go on your Windows machine and open up a command prompt. Type in “ipconfig” (no quotes) and validate the machines IP address. It should start with 192 or 10 most likely. Maybe 172.
If it’s the same as it used to be, that’s not the issue. But my bet is that it’s changed.
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Take a look again. The 255.etc is probably the subnet mask. The actual IPv4 is probably 192.168.etc. Whatever that IP address is needs to match what you have set in your iPhone files location.
I think its other way around. That seems like the tail wagging the dog. Its
iPhone -> access Windows directories
not Windows -> access iPhone directories, its sort of 1 way
Right, but the ip address of the windows machine has likely changed, so potentially, when the phone tries to connect, it’s using the old address and find nothing there. They are suggesting that the phone’s knowledge of the PC address needs updating.
yes, the iphone uses the 192. ip to locate your windows laptop in the network.
what he is saying is that ip probably changed with the router, but it’s just a matter of finding out the new one.
Yes, you need to change the address on your iPhone. Beyond that, you should look at setting your router to give a static IP address to your Windows computer, so that it doesn’t ever change.