On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 at 13:59, Denny Esterline wrote: > Spent some time on this this afternoon with some level of success. It sti= ll > feels like I flailed around helplessly until something worked, but I was > able to copy files from one machine to another. > Probably the most helpful was this page > https://www.techjunkie.com/cannot-see-shared-folders-windows/ > > Thanks in large part to input from various input here I "seem to have won= ". The 'method' is simple enough, and in retrospect perhaps reasonably obvious, but just because it's not too hard to climb down the tree once you've reached your destination does not make the path obvious prior to finding it. Using 3 PCs as a test suite (2 x W10 Pro, 1 x Windows home) - I have full rights between W10P and W10H if the same login ID is used with the other arrangements below. - I still have a degree of asymmetry in access rights between PCs if I don't use identical login IDs . Some combinations work both ways. Some allow read but not write. A bit more playing may fix that. (This seems to happen even when 'rights' are set to all-access for 'everyone'. Access of remote drives using addresses of the form \\otherPC\C works. I have not tried the IP address mapping suggested by some. recipe: The following is slightly MORE permissive than Dwayne's suggestions in his post in this thread dated Thu, 24 Jan, 07:21 (5 days ago). Some of what I have enabled is no doubt unneeded and hopefully I'll go back manana manana and kneecap that which is superfluous. The main 'trick' was *PROBABLY* - Setting all printer and file sharing options on - Turning password protected sharing *ON* - Using the same account and password on all PCs. It works. Agh. So simple. When it works. Russell =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Dwayne's method: This thread - Thu, 24 Jan, 07:21 1) On the Win10 PC, bring up the taskbar and right-click on the network icon (usually right-hand side of the taskbar). Select "Open Network and Sharing Center". 2) Select "Change advanced sharing settings" (left sidebar). 3) Under Network Discovery: "Turn on network discovery" and tick the box marked "Turn on automatic setup of network connected devices" Under File and printer sharing: "Turn on file and printer sharing" [[MAY BE ABSENT: ]] Under HomeGroup connections: "Use user accounts and passwords to connect to other computers" Expand the group "Guest or Public" : I have selected "Turn off network discovery" and "Turn on file and printer sharing" Expand the group "All Networks". I have the following items selected: Under Public folder sharing: Turn off Public folder sharing I don't have any options set for Media streaming Under File sharing connections: Enable file sharing for devices that use 40- or 56- bit encryption. This allows me to connect to my Win98 boxes= .. [[NOT INTUITIVE, maybe]]. Under Password protected sharing: I have "Turn on password protected sharing". You then need to open Windows Explorer and go to either select an entire drive **or** selected folders on each drive, right-click on the item (drive or directory) and select "Share with". That takes you to "Advanced sharing" where you can specify the share name and set permissions. Password-protected sharing works best of you have a common user name account on each computer. For all of my machines, my working account is "Admin". Having a common user name on each of the computers makes logging in much easier. We use peer-to-peer sharing at my shop, This is somewhere between 12 - 20 computers running anywhere from Win98 all the way up to Win10. Most (but not all) of the Win XP boxes have either died or been upgraded to something more current. I think there is still a Win2k box out there as well. But now mostly Win7 & Win10. The Win98 box is special - it is still my main development machine and is never allowed to go on the Internet. But I can access it from any of the other machines when I need to. > > --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .