How to get Windows 10 Computer to see other computer's shared files& folders

Question

I have a small office network -- 2 Windows 7 Professional and 2 Windows 10 Home

Each of them machines has a certain folder and files within all shared for access on the LAN.

On each of the 2 Windows 7 Professional machines I can see and access everyone's shared folder and files. Perfect!

On each of the 2 Windows 10 Home machines I can only see and access the folders and files shared off the Windows 7 machines. I cannot see or access the shared folder and files on the other Windows 10 Home machine.

Is it possible to get shared access from one Windows 10 Home machine to another Windows 10 Home machine?

If so, how?

Thank you.

Answer 1

It would be better if you posted the step by step you have followed and where you got stuck. As someone in one comment above said, the internet is full of this Howto's.

There are a couple of ways of doing this. Imagine you have two nodes node1 (10.0.0.1) and node2 (10.0.0.2) and in the root of your disk on node1 you have a folder called share (C:\share) which you want to share. Here is one easy way to share it:

On node1:

1. Right click on the share folder and choose Give access to and then Specific people... from the context menu.
2. From the dropdown menu choose Everyone or a user from the list and click on the Add button.
3. On the column Permission level choose the type of permission you want to give (Read or Read/Write).
4. Finally click on share button.

On node2:

1. Press key combination WIN KEY + R and the RUN windows will popup.
2. Type \\10.0.0.1\ and press the ENTER key.
3. A windows with a list of shared folders on node1 will appear.

Please refer to the following link for more details on how to achieve this:

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/111783-share-files-folders-over-network-windows-10-a.html