network sharing

Hi guys, Our company’s environment consists of mostly Win10 machines but we still have some lingering Win7 boxes. Our email is hosted by Office 365 and I’ve recently hopped onto the Azure Active Directory wagon to get our environment more secure. Off the bat I was having troubles adding our...

Hello everyone! I am having a problem with homegroup. I access internet by connecting to my home WiFi. However, everytime I restart my router, Windows recognise it as a new homegroup even though I change nothing in my router settings. I tried merging different homegroup together, but that...

I run three computers on my home network. All three updated on April 30 to the latest Windows version. One computer, the slowest and cheapest, is working great, but there are problems on the other two that I'm hoping someone can provide me some guidance on. The Lenovo is working perfectly...

Hi, I'm Dan. This is my first post on the forum. I'm hoping other members may be able to assist me with a frustrating issue I'm facing on my home network. On my network, I have: HP Laptop with Windows 8.1 Pro using Wifi Custom build Desktop PC being used as a file server with Windows 8.1 Pro...

Hi, I have some network shares connected to my client from my server and I want to use File History on my server but I know that's not possible and that's a same it should bee great to run on it. (I'm running Windows Server 2016) What I understand is that then I should use Shadow Copy but...

Hi, We have an existing GPO that sets the desktop wallpaper of Windows 10 clients. It uses the following GPO path: User Config >Polices > Administrative Templates >Desktop >Desktop >Desktop Wallpaper It uses a network file share to read the *.jpg file and display it as the desktop wallpaper...

I've got home/office network of 7 computers (all on Win 10). Each computer has files in the public documents that needs to be accessed, with full control, by the other computers. Most all the computers communicate fine with one another, but I've got one computer (TOM) that can only read the...

Just after upgrading to the new Windows 10 anniversary update, I'm having problems with my network shares going offline after computer restarts and hibernation. The shared folders that I have set up are hidden/administrative type shares with the $ symbol at the end of the share name. After a...

Hello. How I can share (create an access point) Wi-fi on Windows 10?

Having an issue with a VPN. The VPN is a basic PPTP VPN which is setup on our Firewall, for a user to connect the simply create a new VPN point it to our IP and log in with a username and password. The test machine im using is a laptop running Windows 7 64-BIT Professional. I can connect to...

I recently upgraded a win7 computer on our lan to win10. now i find I cannot copy files from another computer on the net, winxp, to this new win10. previously I could and did, quite frequently. now the win10 computer tells me i need admin permissions. and the winxp computer tells me to...

I’m trying to setup a Homegroup connection between my desktop and laptop computers. Both are Windows 10. The desktop is connected to my router via Ethernet and the laptop uses wireless. The Homegroup on the laptop seems to be working ok. When I click Homegroup in Windows Explorer, it shows the...

Here's the setup on my home network: Win10 Machine A - Win 10 Pro, Automatically logs on Using a Local Account (In Netplwiz I Unchecked that users need to enter a User Name/PW and have an admin account automatically logging in). Win10 Machine B - Win 10 Pro, Normal Logon process with a...

Hi guys I'm trying to access a network share from a Windows Server 2008 R2 and I'm receiving the follow error: If I put the complete UNC, I can access the share: Now, if I up one level, I can see other shares: Anyone have any idea why I'm receiving this error?

Hi, new poster here. I've posted this to the Win 8 forum, but it could equally apply to Win 10. I have 3 windows machines at home - netbook, laptop and desktop. The netbook was bought with Win 7 has never had a personalised lock screen, now it's on Win 10 it has a generic Microsoft one. The...

Dear All, We are using Windows Server 2012R2 for sharing folders on the network. Our requirement is : 1. Around 8 Shared folders 2. Depends on folder we need to give Modify permission for small group, Read+Write for another group and R+W permissions including Modify permission on some...

I'm new to windows, and i just built a computer that runs windows 8.1. I set up my computer to work as a dlna media server and ive put some photos in windows media player and im 100% positive that there on the dlna server. But when i go to my xbox and click the server, all the folders show up...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (June 9, 2015): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker places a malicious .dll file in a local directory on the machine or...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (June 9, 2015): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker places a malicious .dll file in a local directory on the machine or...

Do you use shared computers, Remote Desktop Services or solutions like Citrix XenApp with Office? On September 1st shared computer activation was enabled for all Office 365 ProPlus users. On this show Jeremy Chapman invites Amesh Mansukhani to answer the most common questions we've been hearing...