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LOCAL NETWORK FILE SHARING WINDOWS 8 WINDOWS 8.1

However, I haven't actually tested this theory.

I imagine the computer is allowing all rights on that folder and it's treating me as though I am actually sitting in front of my Windows 10 computer. One is my user folder (titled with my username).

After that, my windows 8.1 computer displays 3 folders (in its parent directory) So, I enter a username and password for the account that I use on the Windows 10 computer. When I click on the computer name for the windows 10 machine, I am prompted to enter a username and a password. 'List folder contents' -> unchecked allow (in hindsight, I am not sure why I unchecked the 'List folder contents' because I can't see any security issue with that)Īfter making the changes, I am now able to see the windows 10 computer when I am in 'network' directory on the windows 8.1 machine. In the security settings that you directed me to, I have now changed the settings for 'everyone.' I can shed some more light on the situation now. Anyway, it's probably just some other setting.

One thing that was interesting is that when I sat down at the Windows 8.1 machine and clicked on the shared folder, there was no password required, even though the new user account (with the matching name) that I had now set up on the Windows 10 computer, I did set up with a password. So, I went to the folder on the Windows 10 computer and unshared the users folder. The reason that this user folder was probably visible is because when I was trying to get the sharing to work, probably I toggled a setting that caused this. In other words, even though the 'users' folder has 3 subfolders in it, only one of those shared folders showed when I click on the user folder. I think it just had the set of folders that led to the shared folder, without any other sub directories being visible. This users folder had a set of folders in it that led to the same directory as the one that I was trying to (and had now been able to successfully) share.

However, when I am in front of the Windows 8.1 machine, I also noticed a folder named users (in addition to the folder that I had set to share). I created a user account that has the same username and password as my Windows 8.1 user account.

LOCAL NETWORK FILE SHARING WINDOWS 8 WINDOWS 10

LOCAL NETWORK FILE SHARING WINDOWS 8 WINDOWS 8.1

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