Connecting to RPi 3 ad-hoc network from windows PC

Question

I have recently started working on ad-hoc connection of Raspberry Pi 3. I am having difficulties creating an ad-hoc connection between windows 8 or 10 pc and the Raspberry Pi 3. I`ve tried to configure my RPi 3 ad-hoc as saying on this link Ad Hoc setup in RPi 3 and my configured code is shown below;

/etc/network/interfaces at RPi 3:

# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)

# Please note that this file is written to be used with dhcpcd
# For static IP, consult /etc/dhcpcd.conf and 'man dhcpcd.conf'

# Include files from /etc/network/interfaces.d:
source-directory /etc/network/interfaces.d

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface eth0 inet manual


allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet static
    address 10.1.1.38
    netmask 255.255.255.0
    wireless-mode ad-hoc
    wireless-essid PiAdHocnet
    wireless-channel 1
    # wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf



iface default inet dhcp

allow-hotplug wlan1
iface wlan1 inet manual
   wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

After this configuration, I reboot RP 3 and also reset wifi as

sudo ifdown wlan0
sudo ifup wlan0

then ad-hoc connection appears on windows 10 computer' s wifi list but when I try to connect, it says "can not connect to this network". cannot seem to find a solution to this problem, and no other documentation that I have read has contained any helpful information. Can you help me how can I connect my windows 8 or 10 computer to Raspberry Pi 3 ad-hoc?

When I follow instruction in this link and changed address 10.1.1.38 with address 192.168.1.1 and wireless-essid PiAdHocnet with wireless-essid RasbiNet, somehow I can connect to RPi 3 ad-hoc network by iPhone 5S

Answer 1

Without a DHCPv4 server running on your Pi Windows usually will be very sad. So sad. The ISC DHCPv4 server can be easily installed, from package isc-dhcp-server. Make sure to adapt its config file to reference the IPv4 subnet you have assigned to wlan0 where your AP is.