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On May 9, 2025 at 8:39:11 PM EDT, "Rick" <rick@nospam.com> wrote:

> This is an odd problem.  I use VLC to play audios on my iPhone.  When I
> need to transfer new audios from my primary home PC to the iPhone, I
> open the VLC app and click on the Networking tab and it gives me the ip
> address to connect to on the PC.  It’s usually something like
> 192.168.1.146.  Both the phone and my PC are connected to the home
> router.  When I enter this into the browser on the PC, it brings up a
> screen that says Sharing via Wi-Fi, a section that says Drop Files, and
> I literally just click and drag the audio files on the PC to that window
> which transfers them to the VLC app on the iPhone.  This works great and
> I have been doing it for years with no problem.  If needed, I can also
> do this transfer using either of two other PCs on my home network, which
> are a Windows 7 and another Windows 11.
> 
> Recently for reasons I don’t understand, this transfer stopped working
> on my main Windows 11 computer.  I have checked the address in VLC
> networking and it matches what I type in on the Windows 11 PC. I have
> rebooted both phone and PC. I have verified I am connected to my home
> wireless on both devices. Everything else works fine on both devices. I
> can access the internet fine on both. I can access files on the other
> PCs on the home network just fine. But this one VLC connect function
> will not work unless I engage in a weird workaround.
> 
> As mentioned, the transfer function works on the other two PCs on the
> network.  Whenever it fails to connect on my main Windows 11 machine, I
> can go to either of the other computers on the network and the transfer
> function comes up with no problem.  At that point, I can easily transfer
> files from my main computer using either of the other PCs since all
> three PCs can see files on either of the other PCs.  But that’s not the
> weird part.  Once I bring up the transfer function on either of the
> other two PCs, it suddenly works on my main PC.  It’s like somehow the
> function needs to be “primed”.  At that point, the transfer will work
> fine on the main computer until I do a restart, and then the problem recurs.
> 
> Frankly, if it always failed on the main PC but still worked on the
> other two PCs on the network, I would have some ideas about what might
> be happening and what I could do to fix it.  Even the fact that it used
> to work perfectly on all three PCs and suddenly failed for no reason on
> the one could suggest a recent software change or maybe a Windows update
> problem as the source of the issue.   But the fact that it works fine
> once it is primed by one of the other devices is quite puzzling and I’m
> not sure where to start.
> 
> Any ideas?  The PC is Windows 11 Home 24H2.   The phone is iPhone 15 Pro
> with latest IOS.

I would start by turning off the firewall on Windows 11.