Why does a remote computer on the network not respond to a name, only to an IP?

Question

Computer networks

Why could there be such a strange thing. My home network has my computer and another one. Until recently, I easily went to the second one by typing \\Miniserver\Public in the address bar, but recently it has become possible to get to this computer only by knowing its IP, that is, like this \\192.168.1.216\Public
The name of the computer has not changed and Miniserver remains, workgroup is the same.

Answer 1

Try like this:

Answer 2

If you have only two computers, enter the names in hosts .
You need to edit the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file, adding the line to it:
After that, the name will always resolve correctly and it will be available by this name. Naturally, everything will work until the IP address of the machine is changed.
And not any trouble with a rudiment from the small-soft ones called NetBIOS, so it.

Answer 3

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBIOS

Answer 4

Since you have a working group, then google "problems with the browstat computer browser"

Answer 5

if my memory serves me, the domain name service (dns) is responsible for this. It must be installed on at least the computer you are trying to access.