Accessing other machines on home network

zigzag03

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I have a 3 machine network with NAS and phones and tvs and dvrs, all the current paraphernalia of the typical home network these days. All three machines have file sharing and drive sharing enabled, and are all part of the same workgroup. But one machine I cannot access from the others because it wants a username and password. I didn't set that up machine up with any password, in fact I didn't set it up with a Microsoft account at all, and so there is technically no username or password, at least to my way of thinking. What do I need to do to get around this? Thanks zz03
 

JackMDS

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Sharing is Not One Switch On.

Check each computer sharing setting I mean each computer because computer does Not see Network depends also on how other computers are Configured.

Go to Control Panel Network and Sharing Center, then on the left side click on Change advanced sharing center.

Go through the Sharing menus and set it to whatever you want to.

See the details here - http://www.dummies.com/computers/op...-and-configure-sharing-options-in-windows-10/


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