✅Share Files, Folders & Drives Between Computers Over a Network in Windows 11/10

welcome to a new video here at the workshop my name is ipmolik today we will learn some easy ways how to create a local network windows 11 and how to share files folders and drives between computers over a network first open file explorer right click this pc and select properties here we see the name of our computer and if you have a long and obscure name change it for easy communication with other computers click here write a new name i'll call my computer pc1 it's easy to remember and click next [Music] if you change the name of your pc the system will ask you to reboot but for now we can do that later now let's open the control panel click here and write control panel [Music] open network and internet network and sharing center and open the option on the left change advanced sharing settings tab network private choose turn on network discovery turn on file and printer sharing now choose all networks turn on sharing so anyone with network access can read and write files in the public folders and turn off password protected sharing save changes [Music] close all windows and restart your pc [Music] on the second computer i have windows 10 and here the steps will be slightly different i open the explorer then this pc right click on an empty field and select properties [Music] in this window click on the left advanced system settings [Music] click computer name to change the pc name i click edit [Music] i enter a new name pc2 i'll leave the name of the working group unchanged and click ok for the changes to take effect you need to restart the pc i click ok but i'll restart the pc a little later now let's open the control panel click here and write control panel open network and internet network and sharing center [Music] and open the option on the left change advanced sharing settings tab network private choose turn on network discovery turn on file and printer sharing now choose all networks turn on sharing so anyone with network access can read and write files in the public folders and turn off password-protected sharing save changes close all windows and restart your pc let's go back to pc1 now we need to share the folder for this i will create a folder on the desktop and name it files you can create a folder in any other place and name it any other name now right click on this folder select properties sharing share choose everyone add here you need to choose reading and writing share click done and the folder is shared open the tab advanced settings check the box here you can set the number of concurrent users click permissions and check the box there as you need you can allow or deny apply ok and you can also go to the tab security click edit and also change the settings as you need apply ok now move the files you want to share to this folder for example i will transfer the video to this folder do the same on the second pc [Music] the only thing is i named the folder share and move the photo into it [Music] now right click on this folder select properties sharing share choose everyone [Music] add here you need to choose reading and writing share click done and the folder is shared now back to pc1 right click on the menu start run enter two backslashes on the name of another computer pc2 enter my computer scanned the environment and found a folder on pc2 here we see its location network pc2 i open this folder and we see it at a photo that i moved there earlier now we can put something else in this folder create a document inside it and in this way we will exchange files i open explorer click network we see that the computer has found another device on the network but the name of the second computer is still not here it may appear later because computer names may disappear and then appear in this list and to avoid these problems it is better to do the following right click on an empty spot on your desktop or in a folder and select create shortcut put two backslashes and write the name of another computer i will write pc2 next ready we click on the new shortcut and here we see the folder of another computer and if we open it we will see the files of another computer on the local network now on the second computer open explorer click network [Music] pc1 is not detected again and here you can do the following remove the word at the top network enter two backslashes then the name of the first computer pc1 update now we see the shared folder of pc1 in which the video is located let's create a shortcut for this folder yes and here the shortcut works without problems too now don't forget to leave your comment subscribe to my channel if you haven't already and i just hope this video was informative for you and i would also like to thank you for watching my video good luck [Music]

Channel: ipMalik

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Id: D_OsSGe9tNI

Length: 9min 19sec (559 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 15 2022