Recent content by MikeyChris

From what you are saying, I am assuming I didn't describe the problem properly. The issue was indeed that the shares on the Win 10 machine were NOT visible in File Explorer. As I wrote in an earlier message, I could share the files by using the \\computername\filenamemnetwork search. I...

Neemobeer and livix07 I appreciate all your help and suggestions. I am happy to say this issue was resolved by a member (over on the tenforum board) named Eagle 51. The fix was this (on the Win 10 Pro machine): Check Windows Services and make sure the following two services are Running and...

OK, I'm learning as I go along here... When I open a browser on the win 8 machine, and enter "\\netname\share" on the Win 8 machine (browser url window), i see an Explorer window that is viewing the share on the Win 10 machine. IOW, the shared folder/file is "seen" by the win 8 machine when...

Can we back up a moment? Neemobeer said:"If you are not able to connect then it's likely a firewall issue. If you can and it's empty then it's a sharing issue." This was with reference to connecting via ip address. Please understand I CAN see shared files on the Win 8 machine FROM the Win 10...

OK, hre's the specific steps I took to try to share a file on the Win 10 machine: 1. Open File Explorer 2. Drill down to file I want to share 3. Select file that I want to share 4. Click SHARE tab on the ribbon bar 5. Click SPECIFIC PEOPLE in pull down menu 6...

Disabling the firewalls didn't help. It's looking like I have the sharing settings wrong, but I cannot figure out WHAT is wrong. I will make a step-by-step list of what I am doing and post it here. Maybe you can tell me what I did wrong. Thanx.

That's what I did the first time, but nothing showed up in the browser window, even though there are several shares.

OK, I Googled it and logged in to the win10 machine from the win8 machine using the mstsc tool (remote desktop). I was indeed able to use the remote desktop feature and saw the desktop on the win10 machine (visible on the win8 machine). So... what does all that mean? Thanx again for the help.

OK, I'm not sure how to login using the IP address. If I enter the ip of the win10 machine into a browser url field (e.g. 192.168.1.6) all I get is an error message (This page can't be displayed). I can PING the win10 machine from the Win8.1 machine, but I don't know how to do the login thing.

Let me begin by apologizing for not posting more pertinent data. My bad. Perhaps this will help: 1) I can ping both ways (to/from each machine) 2) The Win 10 machine says it's in Network 2 (I never did understand WHERE that name came from) 3) The Win8 machine says it's connected to net 2G (my...

I have a notebook running Win 8.1 that cannot see share4d files on a Win 10 Pro 64 bit machine. The Win 10 machine CAN see files shared on the Win 8.1 machine. I have checked sharing and permissions, and can't seem to correct this. Any ideas what's wrong here? Thanx.

Hello all, I have several issues with Windows 10, but I shall try to keep each question limited to one topic. A quick history: I bought a new HP Pavilion Desktop PC 570-p027 computer in November of 2017. The only "original" problem I had was video-related, and I won't go into that here. I...

BTW, I was playing around, and found if I open a PS box, then run CMD (inside the PS box), I can run: dir *.msc /s >MSCFile.txt and get my list.

I'm using an MS account.

Sorry to take so long to reply - been having many other computer issues. I actually checked that reg entry right away and it was set to zero, so I don't know what is causing the "incorrect password" message. I am running UTW and thought there may be some issue with that, but can't locate a...