What am I doing wrong that I can see my network share at home only if I
type in the ip address?

I have two windows computers on my home network over wifi.
Both have public shares.

I can access the public shares over wifi if I type \\192.168.0.5\share but
I can't browse to "see" that share.

Since the ip address changes over time I could set it to a static ip
address but why can't windows just browse to one share from another share
when the ip address changes?

Why can't I see my public shares without having to know the ip address?