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| Setting up Network Sharing |
- Open Control Panel on your Windows computer
- Select Network and Sharing Center
- On the left of the screen there is an inscription so click “Change advanced sharing settings”
- In the “Advanced sharing settings” window, there are two profiles “Home or Work” and “Public” is what you are looking for. How to find out how? You only see the profile that is written in Current Profile.
For this section and step, there are several categories of settings that will be presented to you, as follows:
- Network Discovery. When the computer is turned on, computers connected to a network will look for other devices connected to the same network as well. This option is useful for setting whether other computers can or not find your computer.
- File and Printer Sharing. This setting must be enabled if you want to share folders between computers.
- Public Folder Settings. When this setting is active, you can share folders via the public folder on your computer with other computers. This setting is also used by all computers connected to the network you are using. But that must be noted, this setting should not be active on a public network, it should only be active if it is on a network in the office or home.
- Streaming Media. Multimedia files such as videos, pictures or music can be accessed with this setting by using the Windows Media Player software. The settings are changed by clicking “Choose media streaming options…”.
- File Sharing Connection, a useful setting for encryption of connections on the currently active network. Windows by default has 128-bit encryption set up. If your network group uses 40 or 56-bit encryption, it is better to select “… that use 40 or 56-vit encryption”.
- Password protected sharing, this setting requires the person who will access the document or file that you have shared to have a username and password, because both are on the computer.
- Homegroup Connection, By default, Windows has set the Homegroup to have the same password for each computer that has joined. But if it’s for security, it is not recommended. For that, select Allow Windows to manage homegroup connections.
2. Share the file you want to share
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| Share the file you want to share |
If the settings in Network Sharing are set, then share the desired files. The steps are as follows:
- Open Windows Explorer
- First determine which folder you want to share. Then click the “Share with” menu > “Specific people”
- In this section, write the user “Everyone” then click Add and click share when done.
- Then you will be able to confirm “Your Folder is Shared”, then click “Done”.
Files in your computer’s Drive can also be shared with others, so it’s not just files or folders that can be shared. The steps are as follows:
- First select which drive you want to share, then right-click and select share with > advanced sharing.
- Click Advanced sharing.
- Put a check mark on “Share this folder”.
- Then add a user and set the permissions of that user by selecting “Permissions”
- Click “Add” if you want to add a user or group. if you want to share for many people then select “Everyone”. then set the permissions.
- Click OK.
- Return to the Properties window. Now you switch to the security tab. Click the Edit button for and add a user and then set permissions by clicking the edit menu.
- Click “Add” to add a user
- In the “Select User or Group” window, click “Advanced”.
- For this section, you can select any user who can access the shared data. So that the user list comes out, then click “Find now” then select “Everyone”.
- Click OK.
- In the field object names that have been filled in, click OK.
- Set the permissions. How to click Everyone, then set the permissions according to your wishes. Finally click OK.
3. Check your network connection
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| Check your network connection |
In order to know if another computer is already sharing with you, check by typing the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the computer you want to access the files on in the Windows Explorer address column.
To check the IP address of your friend’s computer, please check the Properties in the Network Sharing Center.
For example, the IP address of your friend’s computer is 192.168.40.34.
It means that what you have to write is “\192.168.40.34” in the address field. Search for your friend’s computer name and right-click on it.
If you want to check whether your computer can be connected to another computer, you can do it the way above, so that it can be checked, you have to use another computer.
If there is a problem on the LAN network, then you may not be able to share folders.
For that, if there is a problem on the LAN network immediately repaired.
The final word
When the computer is connected to a network, then sharing folders is very useful, be it documents, printer device files or folders.
The most important thing is sharing folders or files because you no longer use a flash or other storage media if you want to share.
But before you will do sharing folders, it’s a good idea to check the necessary devices such as computers and LAN networks of course.
Because without it, folder sharing cannot be done.
Don’t miss our other articles about not being able to access file sharing on Windows 10, how to share a Windows 10 printer, how to share a Windows 10 folder with wifi and how to create a password for a Windows 10 sharing folder.
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