Windows 10 Home Networking?

Darren Heal

^ first thing I tried (and the second and the third and....)

Darren Heal

10 miles as the vultures fly.  VPN is the way to go.  if / when she decides she wants it we'll get it set up through our ISP or a local third party.

The Dude

My first roll of the dice would be to enable SMB1/CIFS on (all) your PCs, give them a reboot, see what you get?

settings > apps & features > programs& features > turn windows features on or off.

                                                                       

liquidsoap89

Along with the share permissions, check to make sure the security permissions on the shared folders/drives are also set up correctly.

Abacus

Reset the network to default and restart the computer, then go into network sharing options /All networks/ and make sure all public folders are set for sharing, also setup any passwords or encryption as required, in addition make sure you switch on the media streaming option and set to your requirements.

Hopefully this will fix your problem.

Bill

next010

Right click on a folder
* select give access to
* select specific people
* select everyone from drop down box
* set permission level to read or read/write if you want to allow delete, manage data.
* click on share

Assuming no other network problems the shared folders should be visible in the explorer network section on the other Win PC's.

If a share is active on a folder, remove that existing share before trying the above process so the correct permissions are applied, also the other PC's need file and network discovery enabled, it probably is unless something changed.

Darren Heal

Windows Home Server 2011 did the trick!

Installed it last night on a brand new 220 gig SSD,  got my user accounts set up, and the four 2.7 terabyte spinning rust units configured as a RAID5 storage drive, 8.8 terabytes effective capacity.  WHS 2011 won't do RAID10 by the look of it but that's okay.  

Thankfully those discs didn't have anything on them   Then I hooked up my 4 terabyte and 6 terabyte external RAID10 drives with all my music and movies on, and Robert's your father's brother I'm in business.  I can now access the files from ant PC in the house.

Crazy to think when I started messing with Pcs 30 years ago a 40 MEGAbyte hard disk was considered "big" and now I have a server in my home with 17 TERAbytes!

Thanks for all your help chaps but in the end the Server software was the way to go for me at least.