I have a computer that has three huge hard drives with a clean installation of windows 7 that I use as a juke box to store my files on for my laptop with windows 10. After whatever the latest update was, I can no longer share files between the two computers. I have reset the homegroup, deleted it off, set it up again, changed the password. I still do not have permission to share the hard drives from the windows 7 computer to the windows 10 ones. I cannot include the hard drives from the “share directory” option as it is grayed out.
Does anyone have a successful way of doing this? The chief IT guy can’t seem to make it work here either. He says that the windows 7 installation will have to be redone, but it was done at our computer shop that does no longer do the windows 7 installs, and I need 7 for a particular program on the 7 computer.
You’re not alone. My windows 10 and windows 7 machines will not share files, either. I use dropbox and thumbdrives.
If it’s crucially important to you, I recommend you install a 3rd party file sharing program on both computers, because Microsoft seriously broke some things.
I had sharing working just fine. Then I set up Windows Bridge so I could plug in my Pi Zeros directly into the USB port of my PC and let them access the Internet.
Windows Bridge changed some key settings and I can’t figure out how to undo them.
Ever since then the shared drives aren’t seen on the network. I’ve run thru all sorts of settings and nada.
Thanks for the tips everyone. It USED to work just fine but not anymore. I’m the administrator on both machines. Does anyone have a third party program they would recommend? If I had an idea of what the change was maybe I could go undo it.
The classic way to do this is SFTP. Then you use a client like FileZilla that is drag and drop. You can either set the FTP server up inside windows 10, or there are no doubt 1 click third party programs out there.
