Windows 7 view local shares

To get you PC's to visible under File Explorer network section then most important part is to start some required services. Although you are targeting the Home Group issue, I made these changes in the mentioned services, but the problem still exist. I have small home network. The Home Group sharing capabilities are working both ways. Any ideas? Thanks, Meny. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse.

Need more help? Expand your skills. Get new features first. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you! Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow. No jargon. Pictures helped. Firstly, please let us know the exact message you received of the accessing failure and the operating system of the computer which hosts the share. Based on my research, I would like to suggest the following:.

Check if you can ping the computer which hosts the share you want to access. Check the security and permission settings of the shares and ensure the user on the problematic computer have the permission to access the share.

The network path was not found. Pinging totocomputer. Share name Resource Remark. Thank you for your update. I still would like to know the operating system of the computer which hosts the share. At this time, please also try the following:. Temporarily disable or remove all the security software firewall, anti-virus, anti-spyware, etc. Boot this computer to clean boot and check the issue:. How to troubleshoot a problem by performing a clean boot in Windows Vista or in Windows 7.

Please also check if this computer can access some other shares on the network. Hope this helps. At this time, I would like to share the following with you:. File and Printer Sharing in Windows Vista.

I don't know whether its required in domain mode as well because I did the registry fix before joining a domain. The HomeGroup services are explicitly disabled and Password Protected sharing is enabled in the network settings. I'm also trying to access the hidden shares for the purposes of pushing a corporate anti-virus sophos security to all of the workstations. I tried the relevent user name of domain user on the workstation with no success - there is no error msg but the pasword screen re-appears blank usually inidcating an invalid username and password - i then try the adminstrators username and password and i am told that i cannot access the share using multiple usernames and passwors - disconnect all previous connections I removed the share and added it back immediatly where it would give me the option to set permissions and security so i set up the specific user with full access to everything and still no go that would not have been ideal anyway , however i'm skeptical as to whether Windows set the permissions or not or whether they just defualt back to the normal settings when the share is recreated - no way of checking i don't think.

Upon further investigation i went back to my workshop and attempted to access the administrators share on my own domain and found the same issues. After spending sometime on the phone to Sophos trying to sort it out they told me it is a windows networking problem and their software is designed to utilise that environment - i have a gut feeling that Microsoft has a security somewhere along the line that changes the way the default share works both of the networks i am working are not complicated they were given a basic set up with no real specific GP's.

Had the same issue this morning. It was the last thing I expected to be disabled so, naturally, it was the last thing I checked. I have 2 Windows Ultimate 32 Bit in my home network, one laptop and a desktop machine. Access the admin shares on the older installation on my laptop works perfectly from every other computer in my network. However, i was not able to access the new installed Windows 7 on the desktop machine. I have tried the LocalAccountToken fix and some other tips belong to firewall settings, etc.

Non of them works at all, i just remember that the only difference between the installations was that this time i immediately leave and disable the Homegroup after installation finished. Computer Management, Shares - no adminstrative shares at the fresh installation.

Now i can access the admin shares on both machines with the same behavior as expected. It looks like leaving the homegroup removes the admin shares, but i'm not sure as i don't take a look before. Adding the shares manually works, but only until the next reboot. The standard setting of Window 7 is NOT to recreate the admin shares at every startup.

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