On Wed, 07 Apr 2021 17:08:23 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

This PC (well, the one on this workstation) is cabled to my Lan. New
laptop WI-Fi. Have done all the usual tricks to get them to talk to one
another - printed out a booklet off the internet with the 7 most likely
problems with file sharing. And followed them all through.

The laptop doesn't see this PC at all. This one sees the laptop, but only
some files can be shared - despite sharing being set to the same on all.

With users, public files share OK. those under my user name say I haven't
got permission. But all the folders and files in users set to share in the
same way.

Neither machine is set to need a log in after booting.

It was all so easy with Win7...


Don't ask me how but I have my Win10 Pro, Win10 Home, Android and Win
XP all able to see eachother over the network. Well Android can see
the computers, not vice versa.

Some things became easier when I understood I didn't need Workgroups
any more.

I have shortcuts so for instance the Win10 Home shared folder is
\\Pavilion\MyFiles

On the whole I've created my own folder structure from Root and don't
generally use Windows' directories.

Diagnostics were made easier when I used AngryIP scanner, and then the
option to browse and IP.

It wasn't all as simple as I may seem to have made out but I don't
know what I did to get everything working. Playing with Master
Browser I don't think helped.


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AnthonyL

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