shared drives

I have a home network with three computers. They are all running Win 10 Home. I have "shared drives" with "Everyone" on each computer. When I am on my laptop (WiFi connected to the network) I can see Desktop#1 computer, but it asks for credentials (I do not know what user name/password it is...

Hello all, First off I'd like to thank anyone who helps me with this in advance. I recently built a dedicated server system for my home to serve movie files, music, pics, things of that nature and we have a few kids in the household who like to click without thinking and delete things and I'm...

Hello: I am having no end of trouble with my network. Here's the setup: 1. BT Home Hub 5 Wi-Fi router, connected to Internet. 2. Desktop, Win 7 HP, x64, connected to router with Ethernet. 3. HP LaserJet printer, connected to router with Ethernet. 4. Netgear EX6200 AC1200 802.11ac Dual Band...

Since a few weeks ago (no system changes e.g. Updates TMK), my Win 7 machine BETA fails to connect to shared drives on my Win XP Home machine ADVENT after ADVENT has been powered off/on, saying: Location is not available [drive] is not accessible Logon failure: unknown username or bad...

i Just installed Windows 8 in my laptop, with lotS of problem. i have few doubts regarding it : 1. i Cannot access the content of the shared drives of Win7 desktop PC to my win8 lappy. it just lists the shared drive but when i try to acces it, it gives error. 2. iF i Link my Gmail...

All the drives are shared but I can't open anything on the other computer and I have all drives shared for everyone with the right names and it says I don't have permission.

I have two computers on homegroup but I can't see the data drives on one of them. I have both data drives shared and when I go to network I can see the computer and when I open it up all it shows me is Pinter and shared docs.

Hi, I am new to this forum, so hope this is the right place to put my question. :) I am trying to run Access 2003 on a 64-bit Win 7 machine. All MDBs run very slowly, so I found a post on-line that said opening Access with "Run as Administrator" turned on helps. It does! However, when I open it...

Hello, I am consistently getting a BSOD on my new system build (Win7x64SP1.) It happens only when I browse my network folders while connected to my other desktop (Win7x86SP1) though ethernet (no router.) In this configuration both computers have their own wifi adapters for Internet...

Hello! I have a really strange problem. I am using Windows 7 Professional with SP1 installed. I have a My Book 500GB external hard drive connected to the network via Linksys E3000. Now in Windows 7 I am logged in as Admin. The network disk is configured in Linksys, that an admin group can r&w...

I am using Windows 7, My desk top computers has three hard drives, the "C" with just the programmers and other system files, the other two hard drives (all SATA) are used with my main files (E & F) . Drives E & F are set as "Shared drives " I often update files between my Toshiba laptop (also...

I have set up a wi-fi network. My laptop has Win 7 home basic version. My desk top runs on XP and is hard wired to the wi-fi router.. I have used a belkins G level wi-fi router... all the laptops and the desktop are able to access the internet... 1. My WIN7 laptop is able to access my...

I understand this question has been asked and answered hundreds of times but i still need help. I have 3 machines running XP and one desktop running windows 7. I have had the Win7 machine over a year and have hardly used it due to not being able to see the xp machines. The win7 machine was...

I have Windows 7 in my office. We have Windows domain. I have created several drive mappings to shared drives. They used to work. Now, whenever I reboot my PC, they have red x on them. I can click them and reactivate them but when I shutdown and power backup or restart...they go red x...

I have a Router that has a harddrive connected to a USB port. This allows everyone on the network to access the harddrive. This works great in a Windows XP laptop. Now a new laptop having Windows 7 installed does not recogonize the same drive. Any idea or suggestion on how to setup or fix...

I had a system where a windows 7 X64 machine and a mac were using shared drives from another windows 7 X64 machine. All worked well. I had to change my router to a different model, and now the shared drives don't work. They come up as not connected and when I attempt to connect, they ask...

Hi Guys, I have a Zensonic Network Media Player which I'm having trouble getting it to see the Windows 7 shares and I believe the problem is with Windows 7. Basically all the Zensonic unit does is look at anything on the network in the same workgroup and then shows any shared drives. I have...

Hi, I work in a fairly large company and we use a logon script (pushed thru GPO) utilizing "NET USE" to access shared drives. In XP, the system simply skips those drives which user has no access rights to and goes back straight to the C:\drive prompt. This effectively puts an end to the script...

Ok I have 3 Pc's running Win 7 Premium. A laptop, a gaming pc and a media center pc. I have gone through each computer and shared my documents so i can move around video files/pictures/music to any pc from any pc, but for some reason I can't do it between all of the pc's. I can see the...

Hi, I have set 2 computers with Win 7 recently. One is my main workstation, and the other will be a home file server for documents, music, backups, etc. Both are on Win 7. Most of the time when I try to access the server or any of it's shared drives, it asks for credentials, which I...