Home Network Share Problem

Hi all,

I'm trying in vain to set up a simple shared folder at home for me and my wife. We both have Windows 11 Home versions.
For ease of explanation call them PC1 & PC2.

PC1 was updated from Win10 to 11
PC2 is a brand new PC with Win11 preinstalled.

I went through everything required to set up a network share with Network & Sharing, I ensured all the permissions were set correctly but no matter what I did nothing worked. I then decided to try an old WD My book live I had as a NAS so factory reset that and set it up from fresh.

Straightaway both PC's saw it on the network so I entered the address to the public folder on my computer (PC1) and it opened no problem. I then tried to open the public folder on PC2 but it came up windows cannot access \\Nas .....etc.

Ok so I thought this could be a firewall issue blocking it so I set up a new inbound rule but that didn't work either.

I'm now completely confused and lost as to what else I can do or try to be able to get both PC's to talk to each other - This wasn't a problem when we were on Windows 10 so I'm thinking it may have been a 'corrupted' update of Windows 11 on PC1.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can sort this out or anything else I can do to simply have 1 folder containing 2 files accessible by both PCs

Thanks Paul

Hi Paul

Have you try this as it fixed my issue

With a fresh install of 24H2 Pro 26100.1742 I had this problem.
My Windows 10 Pro could access Windows 11 24H2 through my network, however Windows 11 24H2 could not access my Windows 10 Pro or any earlier versions of Windows 11 Pro Computers this only happened since I went to 24H2.
To fix this issue I did both of these changes in Local Group Policy Editor. And Now all is happy including me. I hope this helps.

Computer Configuration, Windows Settings, Security Settings, Local Policies, Security Options
Double click on Microsoft Network Client: Digitally sign communications (always)
Double click on Microsoft Network Client: Digitally sign communications (if server agrees)
Set both of these to "Disabled"
Click on OK.

Computer Configuration, Administrative Templates, Network, Lanman Workstation
Double click on "Enable Insecure Guest Logons"
Set this to "Enabled"
Click on OK.

Hi Wolfzz,

Thanks for the reply and suggestion.

I note that you said this was for a Pro version of windows but both the PC's are using Home versions with 24H2. I'm not sure if your fix will work on my systems as I remember having to deal with Local Policies a very long time ago and vaguely remember this was a problem then but I will certainly give it a go and hopefully the version difference won't be applicable in this case.

Paul

Pacman52 said:

Hi Wolfzz,

Thanks for the reply and suggestion.

I note that you said this was for a Pro version of windows but both the PC's are using Home versions with 24H2. I'm not sure if your fix will work on my systems as I remember having to deal with Local Policies a very long time ago and vaguely remember this was a problem then but I will certainly give it a go and hopefully the version difference won't be applicable in this case.

Paul

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Make a bat file with this below and it will give you gpedit access in Windows Home.
Make sure you run it with Administrator Privileges

@echo off
pushd "%~dp0"

dir /b %SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientExtensions-Package~3*.mum >List.txt
dir /b %SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-Package~3*.mum >>List.txt

for /f %%i in ('findstr /i . List.txt 2^>nul') do dism /online /norestart /add-package:"%SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\%%i"
pause