file sharing

I have desktop and laptop plus a netbook(small 11 in acer) all running win 10. Some times the laptop see the desktop and some times the netbook see the laptop. I noticed you had a small batch file and tried to run (1st post) The screen turns black and a few seconds later it goes away. If I go...

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.

Hi everyone Im new here. My question is I have a windows server 2008 running. With filezila for ftp. And advances folder share for file sharing on my network. Is the any sort of bare bone windows system that will do the job. Keep it simple. Server 2008 is old now but does the job. I done use...

Hi guys I have a Server running winSrv 2012 R2 and have being upgrading my little knowledge from version 03 days. Thus has been reading about the threshold to switch from workgroup to domain, etc, etc. I notice that my Server did not use a Work Group or a Domain to link up the many PCs in the...

Up until a couple weeks ago we've been able to network the computers in our house just fine. Lately I can get into his files but he can't get into mine. It always gives the " You don't have permission to access\\said computer" message. It seems like this all started when I had to reinstall...

The last Win10 update did away with the Homegroup (a problematic thing and probably good that it's gone), but I'm no longer able to access Music, Pictures or videos through My Sony Blu-Ray player. I have three computers on the network plus the Blu-Ray. One computer will allow the access of...

Hi guys. I have a Sony vaio that has recently been wiped unfortunately been hacked again for the second time damn neighbors. Anyway I need to clean reinstall it all. Apparently I need a product key. I just had it repaired and the guy that repaired it upgraded it and didn’t give me the key...

Hi guys. Unfortunately I have lovely neighbours who keep hacking me and have done on my windows laptop for the last 7 months. I want to switch off any facilities that allow them to make any changes to the laptop that will cause it to have problems. So I would like network sharing off. Remote...

I have three computers (Dell Desktop XPS-8700), HP laptop Envy X360 M6-AQ105DX, and Microsoft Surface Pro 4). The surface Pro 4 has Bitlocker disabled. All three run Windows 10 Pro and have SSDs as their main drives. The desktop has a secondary spinning drive and the Surface Pro 4 has a, SDXC...

I manage an online historic archive for a local historical society. We have many documents, pictures, etc., posted in a Dropbox account, and provide links for all who desire. I'm concerned that one of us (me or one of the volunteers who has access to the account/collection) might someday...

I have a linux share on a freshly installed newest version fedora 27 box. And I dnf'ed the latest standard samba. Windows 10 (pro) can't connect to it. I've tried for literally 20 hours accumulated over the past 10 days. Windows is to blame. How do I know? Because another linux server can...

pls help this my problem how to solve ,,missing sharing tab in properties folder windows server 2008

Hey there! Lets cut straight to the chase: I am not being very productive at home lately. No matter where in the house I am at i just can't concentrate long enough to do anything useful with my computer, and i don't want to have to leave the house every time i need to write something, or...

Hello Windows Insiders! Today, we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17035 for PC to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring and for those who opted in to Skip Ahead. PLEASE NOTE: Due to a bug that causes PCs with AMD processors to bugcheck during upgrading to current builds, we are...

USB 3.0 HUB 3 Port with RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter 1000Mbps Link Removed Will above (or similar) allow me to plug a USB3 Thumb drive into one of the sockets, and readily/easily allow connected PCs to share files via the Thumb drive ? The descriptions (on eBay) don't clarify to me - -...

I have a WD My Cloud Expert Series EX2Ultra connected to my home network. Everything has been working perfectly. But, after the latest Win 10 desktop update (Version 1607 Build 14393.1593) Windows explorer no longer finds the NAS. I have a Win 10 laptop (Version 1703 Build 15063.540) Windows...

Hi, I have two Win-7 pro 64 machines networked. Called BB and CC. On ethernet. MP3s recorded with ReAllPro ro on CC and saved to //CC/Sounds cannot be seen from BB with any of Total Commander, Windows Explorer or cmd (dir \\CC\Sounds). CC's Sounds' directory is empty as far as the network is...

Is there a way to set 2 different sets of permissions for a single external HDD used on a windows 7 and a windows 10 computer so that the WIN 10 computer has full read write permissions but the WIN 7 can only read? The objective here is to reduce the chances of the WIN 10 computer, which needs...

I create several network drives. I forget for some network drives the account I used to map the network drive. How can I get the account that I used to map a network drive? Where is the account of a network drive stored. In the registry?

I shared two drives on my PC so I could play my media on my Raspberry Pi KODI box and one drive opens an Explorer window every 20 minutes on my PC. One drive I shared was F: which is a partition on an internal SATA drive, it never opens a window. The other was J: an external USB drive. The...