Access to shared folder on Windows 10

Hi,

Thank you for posting on Microsoft Communities.

I will be glad to help you with the issue you have with the computer. I understand the frustration when things don't work the way it should.

Try giving full permissions to the folder and then try accessing it.

To set folder permission, refer the below steps:

1. Right-click the folder and select Properties.
2. Click on the Security tab.
3. Click Advanced in the lower right.
4. In the Advanced Security Settings window that pops up, click on the Owner tab.
5. Click Edit.
6. Click Other users or groups.
7. Click Advanced in the lower left corner.
8. Click Find Now.
9. Scroll through the results and double-click on your current user account.
10. Click OK to all of the remaining windows except the first Properties window.
11. Select your user account from the list up top and click Edit.
12. Select your user account from the list up top again and then in the pane below, check Full control under Allow, or as much control as you need.
13. You’ll get a security warning, click Yes.

Step 2:

1.       Open ‘My computer’.

2.       On the tool bar, click on ‘Map Network Drive’.

3.       Then under folder, enter your network drive’s name followed by the folder name.

For example, if your network drive name is ‘STORAGE-0B74’ and the folder name is ‘Public’,

you need to enter as \\STORAGE-0B74\Public

Step 3:

Temporary disable Windows Firewall service

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1. Press Windows + R, type "services.msc" (without quotation marks) in the open box and press Enter.

Note: If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type your password, or click Continue.

2. Right click the "Windows Firewall" service and choose Properties.

3. Click "Startup type" option and click "Disabled".

4. Click OK and share the printer again.

If the issue persists, please proceed to the next steps to verify service.

Verify Network settings

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1. Go to Control Panel.

2. Double click Network and Sharing Center.

3. Select "Change advanced sharing settings" option in the right panel.

4. Please turn on "Network discovery" and "File and printer sharing".

Hope this information is useful. Please post in case you have any further issues, I will be glad to help you further.

Thank you.

Thank you Ruth! I have spent the last two days acouring the internet to find each of these solutions. I ahould have stopped here and asked first because this is the most coherent well laid out answer that anyone has provided! Thank you.

Unfortunately, none of these solutions have worked for me and I have done them on both computers in question. I have granted full access and permissions to the single user as well as full access to everone on the network. Neither worked. I disabled the firewalls to no avail. I have updated the network settings on both computers as stated in tour last step. None of this helped.

I also saw online that maybe the encryption was an issueso I switched that but it didnt help either.

The weird thing is I was able to set the drive up and access it fine for about a week then all of a sudden the w10 computer can no longer connect to the file. I cant find where any of the sertings changed between those two conditions.

Thank you again for the well laid out response. I am hoping you may have some more tricks up your sleeve!

I tried the suggested fix and I too did not get anywhere, specifically because I had no "Owner" Tab. SOOOOO I played around and got it working by doing the following:

1. Right-click the Public folder and select Properties.

2. Click the Sharing tab in Public Properties. This will open the File Sharing window for the Public folder.

3. Using the pull down menu (where it says "Type a name and click add, or click the arrow to find someone" , select Everyone.

4. Click Add

5. Select the appropriate permission level (I chose Read/Write).

6. Click Share.

After a few minutes, It may ask if you want to do the same with other public folders like music and videos. I chose yes, but you can choose whatever you want. After that it worked for me.

Hi,

Thank you for posting on Microsoft Communities.

I will be glad to help you with the issue you have with the computer. I understand the frustration when things don't work the way it should.

Try giving full permissions to the folder and then try accessing it.

To set folder permission, refer the below steps:

1. Right-click the folder and select Properties.
2. Click on the Security tab.
3. Click Advanced in the lower right.
4. In the Advanced Security Settings window that pops up, click on the Owner tab.
5. Click Edit.
6. Click Other users or groups.
7. Click Advanced in the lower left corner.
8. Click Find Now.
9. Scroll through the results and double-click on your current user account.
10. Click OK to all of the remaining windows except the first Properties window.
11. Select your user account from the list up top and click Edit.
12. Select your user account from the list up top again and then in the pane below, check Full control under Allow, or as much control as you need.
13. You’ll get a security warning, click Yes.

Step 2:

1.       Open ‘My computer’.

2.       On the tool bar, click on ‘Map Network Drive’.

3.       Then under folder, enter your network drive’s name followed by the folder name.

For example, if your network drive name is ‘STORAGE-0B74’ and the folder name is ‘Public’,

you need to enter as \\STORAGE-0B74\Public

Step 3:

Temporary disable Windows Firewall service

=========================

1. Press Windows + R, type "services.msc" (without quotation marks) in the open box and press Enter.

Note: If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type your password, or click Continue.

2. Right click the "Windows Firewall" service and choose Properties.

3. Click "Startup type" option and click "Disabled".

4. Click OK and share the printer again.

If the issue persists, please proceed to the next steps to verify service.

Verify Network settings

=========================

1. Go to Control Panel.

2. Double click Network and Sharing Center.

3. Select "Change advanced sharing settings" option in the right panel.

4. Please turn on "Network discovery" and "File and printer sharing".

Hope this information is useful. Please post in case you have any further issues, I will be glad to help you further.

Thank you.

1. DISABLE WINDOWS UPDATE/UPGRADE

2. ADD USER "EVERYONE" TO SHARED FOLDER AND MAKE FULL ACCESS PREMISSIONS TO IT...

3. DISABLE USE SHARING WITH PASSWORD IN WINDOWS 10 - CHANGE ADVANDED SHARING SETTINGS -> ALL NETWORKS -> TURN OFF PASSWORD-PROTECTED SHARING

Hi,

Thank you for posting on Microsoft Communities.

I will be glad to help you with the issue you have with the computer. I understand the frustration when things don't work the way it should.

Try giving full permissions to the folder and then try accessing it.

To set folder permission, refer the below steps:

1. Right-click the folder and select Properties.
2. Click on the Security tab.
3. Click Advanced in the lower right.
4. In the Advanced Security Settings window that pops up, click on the Owner tab.
5. Click Edit.
6. Click Other users or groups.
7. Click Advanced in the lower left corner.
8. Click Find Now.
9. Scroll through the results and double-click on your current user account.
10. Click OK to all of the remaining windows except the first Properties window.
11. Select your user account from the list up top and click Edit.
12. Select your user account from the list up top again and then in the pane below, check Full control under Allow, or as much control as you need.
13. You’ll get a security warning, click Yes.

Step 2:

1.       Open ‘My computer’.

2.       On the tool bar, click on ‘Map Network Drive’.

3.       Then under folder, enter your network drive’s name followed by the folder name.

For example, if your network drive name is ‘STORAGE-0B74’ and the folder name is ‘Public’,

you need to enter as \\STORAGE-0B74\Public

Step 3:

Temporary disable Windows Firewall service

=========================

1. Press Windows + R, type "services.msc" (without quotation marks) in the open box and press Enter.

Note: If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type your password, or click Continue.

2. Right click the "Windows Firewall" service and choose Properties.

3. Click "Startup type" option and click "Disabled".

4. Click OK and share the printer again.

If the issue persists, please proceed to the next steps to verify service.

Verify Network settings

=========================

1. Go to Control Panel.

2. Double click Network and Sharing Center.

3. Select "Change advanced sharing settings" option in the right panel.

4. Please turn on "Network discovery" and "File and printer sharing".

Hope this information is useful. Please post in case you have any further issues, I will be glad to help you further.

Thank you.

1. DISABLE WINDOWS UPDATE/UPGRADE

2. ADD USER "EVERYONE" TO SHARED FOLDER AND MAKE FULL ACCESS PREMISSIONS TO IT...

3. DISABLE USE SHARING WITH PASSWORD IN WINDOWS 10 - CHANGE ADVANDED SHARING SETTINGS -> ALL NETWORKS -> TURN OFF PASSWORD-PROTECTED SHARING

The problem here is that there may be an issue when you get to the end of step 2:

When you attempt to map to the folder on the windows 10 machine you need to select use other credentials, when prompted for your credentials, if you do not get prompted for credentials and fail to connect then you need to recreate the drive / folder mapping, as by default, windows will attempt to use your account from the local machine, which will always fail to connect unless it is configured exactly the same with same username and password on both machines, or unless password protected sharing is disabled, or If The built-in usergroup: Everyone has not been granted full control on the folder in question.

If any of the above conditions have not been met, and you still cannot or unable to sucessfully connect,

you need to specify, when prompted for your credentials, the useraccount name and password on the remote machine to which you are trying to connect. Ie:  remotemachinename/David   password.

Failing this, you may need to look at resolving wins/dns problems on your network or remote machine that you want to connect to.