Windows 10 machine can't access shared folder

Hello,

To help resolve your concern, kindly follow these steps:

1. Go to Control Panel.
2. Click Network and Internet.
3. Click Network and Sharing Center.
4. Click advance sharing settings.
5. Under Change sharing options for different network profiles, click the "down arrow" under Private. Hover to HomeGroup connections, and then click "Allow Windows to manage homegroup connections (recommended)".
6. Click Save changes.

Do let us know if you need further assistance.

Regards.

Thanks for the quick response Raymond. Unfortunately this didn't work but I was able to fix it another way. I am pretty experienced setting up small office networks like this so this was kind of frustrating because I was fairly certain everything was configured properly.

So ordinarily, in the past, I have always entered the user credentials for the computer I am trying to access shared folders from. I check the save box and the drive stays mapped from that point on. Unfortunately this wasn't working on this computer.

Turns out, and I guess this is something new to Win 10 Home that I needed to enter  the credentials for the local machine, instead of to the networked computer. Makes no sense to me why Windows would require local machine credentials to access another machine on a network but it does. So case solved.

Thanks again for your help. It didn't fix it but it got me going to find the correct fix.

We really appreciate your efforts and kind response.

Your query will be helpful for other community members who may encounter the same concern.

Have a great one!

You are welcome. Glad I stumbled on the solution and it has helped others.

Can you please explain what you did step-by-step? I'm glad you found a solution but I don't know exactly what you did and I'm still stuck.

Thanks in advance.

"So ordinarily, in the past, I have always entered the user credentials for the computer I am trying to access shared folders from. I check the save box and the drive stays mapped from that point on. Unfortunately this wasn't working on this computer.

Turns out, and I guess this is something new to Win 10 Home that I needed to enter  the credentials for the local machine, instead of to the networked computer. Makes no sense to me why Windows would require local machine credentials to access another machine on a network but it does. So case solved."

It's nice to know that someone found the answer to this but I also need a step by step  instruction on what to do.

"So ordinarily, in the past, I have always entered the user credentials for the computer I am trying to access shared folders from. I check the save box and the drive stays mapped from that point on. Unfortunately this wasn't working on this computer.

Turns out, and I guess this is something new to Win 10 Home that I needed to enter  the credentials for the local machine, instead of to the networked computer. Makes no sense to me why Windows would require local machine credentials to access another machine on a network but it does. So case solved."

I don't know how to do this. Really, I shouldn't have to do it. What's the operating system for? Can someone help me please?