Cannot connect to C: drive in laptop over network 25 February at 2:15PM in Techie Stuff 11 replies 238 views

sandy700

I have a HP 15 BW-069NA laptop on which I installed Windows 11 Pro version 21H2 even though the processor isn't supported and when I view it in network on my Windows 11 Pro desktop I can see the C: drive and Users but when I click on C: drive I get

Windows cannot access \\laptop you do not have permission to access laptop

yet I can access the users folder and paste files to the public folder from my desktop.

This is also the same in reverse from my laptop I cannot access the hard drives, I have 3 on my desktop computer, from the laptop yet I can paste to the Users folder.

I also have a NAS drive that I can access from both computers.

I presume it is a setting somewhere but I cannot find it.

Any ideas?

debitcardmayhem

I am not in front of windows at the mo, but read this https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/file-sharing-over-a-network-in-windows-b58704b2-f53a-4b82-7bc1-80f9994725bf

facade

You have to set the folders up as shared, enable password protected sharing and have a login password set up on the target computer, it won't work if you didn't set a login password, as it insists that you type a password for access, and won't recognise that it is null.

If you have just enabled public folder sharing globally you get what you have.

Networking/filesharing has been broken for years, it is an absolute nightmare to get it working, there are hundreds of hours of youtube videos that all claim to have "the way".

My pc can't see itself on the network, but I can access shares on other machines.

I have a vague recollection of having to paste the network path into file explorer a few times for reluctant shares too.

tallmansix

You shouldn't share the C: drive for security reasons, allows access to the OS.

Just share specific data folders.

sandy700

tallmansix said:

You shouldn't share the C: drive for security reasons, allows access to the OS.

Just share specific data folders.

I know but there is nothing important on the laptop.

I was able to do it with windows 8.1, I could read and write to the laptop as if it's disk was in my desktop.

km1500

try a cmd prompt, type in net ? to get the syntax of the net command, try using it to see what is happening

tallmansix

sandy700 said:

tallmansix said:

You shouldn't share the C: drive for security reasons, allows access to the OS.

Just share specific data folders.

I know but there is nothing important on the laptop.

I was able to do it with windows 8.1, I could read and write to the laptop as if it's disk was in my desktop.

Ok I'll ignore that and try to help you share C: drive.

Can you show your sharing settings - by default they look like this. Right click on c: drive



Also this in computer management:

sandy700

desktop



laptop




Mine seems to have 2 of each drive.

sandy700

this is the desktop

mluton

Does it prompt for credentials if you navigate to \\[computer_name]\c$ from the client machine in explorer ?

km1500

Are file and printer sharing enabled in your firewall on the server computer?

try disabling the firewall and see if anything improves