Wow, that was annoying... I spent most of the day trying to figure out why I could connect to my wife's PC when she opened her Minecraft world to LAN, but she nor my son could connect to any world I opened from my own PC. They could see my world in the Multiplayer menu, but they got a 'Connection Timed Out' error when trying to connect. I tried all the usual stuff - Tweaking firewall settings, adding Inbound rules, allowing Java and Javaw to work through the firewall on private networks, but nothing worked. It all looked like it was set correctly but it just didn't work.
Finally I looked closely at my wifi network connection in Network and Sharing Center and noticed that my home wifi connection was listed as a 'public network'... I could have sworn that I initially set it up as a 'private' network when first connecting to my home router, but for some odd reason it was listed as a public network. Weird! Anyway, I researched how to change it back to a 'private network' and found this site:
After performing the steps found on that site and changing my home wifi network connection to 'private network', my wife and son could connect to my Minecraft worlds when using 'Open to LAN' with no problems at all.
I hope this helps some of you who are banging your heads against a wall because of this same problem.
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Wow, that was annoying... I spent most of the day trying to figure out why I could connect to my wife's PC when she opened her Minecraft world to LAN, but she nor my son could connect to any world I opened from my own PC. They could see my world in the Multiplayer menu, but they got a 'Connection Timed Out' error when trying to connect. I tried all the usual stuff - Tweaking firewall settings, adding Inbound rules, allowing Java and Javaw to work through the firewall on private networks, but nothing worked. It all looked like it was set correctly but it just didn't work.
Finally I looked closely at my wifi network connection in Network and Sharing Center and noticed that my home wifi connection was listed as a 'public network'... I could have sworn that I initially set it up as a 'private' network when first connecting to my home router, but for some odd reason it was listed as a public network. Weird! Anyway, I researched how to change it back to a 'private network' and found this site:
https://tinkertry.com/how-to-change-windows-10-network-type-from-public-to-private
After performing the steps found on that site and changing my home wifi network connection to 'private network', my wife and son could connect to my Minecraft worlds when using 'Open to LAN' with no problems at all.
I hope this helps some of you who are banging your heads against a wall because of this same problem.