Windows public shared folder

On File properties screen, select the Sharing tab and click on the Share button. If the User is not available, type User Name and click on the Add button. Under Permission Level, select the type of sharing permissions that you want to grant to this User and click on the Share button. On the next screen, select the Sharing tab and click on Advanced Sharing button.

On Advanced Sharing screen, check Share this folder option, set the Limit for simultaneous users and click on Permissions. Windows comes with a set of folders which are designed to share your documents with other users.

Documents you put in these folders are accessible by other users of your PC, and by other computers on your network. Public folder sharing is a useful and easy-to-use way to share your files, but they are disabled by default. Here is how to enable it. Public folder sharing is disabled by default. When you enable it, the Public folder becomes available for everyone on your computer or network. You can give permissions to modify your files, so other people will be able to change them, delete or upload their own files.

Note: When public folder sharing is disabled, the folders are not accessible over the network. However, local users who have a user account and password on your device can access them with File Explorer. Keep this in mind. You can disable public folder sharing at any moment.

Also, the other machines can't even see the share; they ask for a password as soon as you try to browse my machine, so it may not be even the share's properties that's the issue. I've tried everything you've suggested and more.

The most promising clue I found was in this thread. It suggests that it's a problem with security group configuration, which unfortunately I can't change once I upgraded to Windows 10 Home, even though it was possible in Windows 7 Home Premium that I had before. It would also explain why it worked immediately after the upgrade the security groups were inherited from Windows 7 , but not after a clean install security groups were reset.

If this is the case then I'm feeling put out by the whole "jump on the Windows 10" bandwagon, as anonymous network shares are a big deal for me. The group policy settings the stackoverflow thread talk about are part of the Local Security Policy. If you run secpol. Give that a try hopefully that works for you I do not have that set on my admittedly Window 10 Pro system. The guest account can also be enabled in Computer Management. I'm afraid there is no secpol. Neighter the search tool or the run dialog can find it :.

So, a weird thing happened. Initially it didn't help, i. But then I entered my username without a password and it accepted it. I then asked a co-worker to try it from his Windows 7 machine and he got straight in, without even entering a user name. So it seems to work now; I can share files and the printer. Thanks a lot for you help!

I had a similar issue accessing Windows 10 shared folders. I wanted to share folders across PC's in a home network. Guest access did not work. Adding a global share did not work either, nor did turning off password protected sharing in network sharing under "all networks". I finally went in through computer management on the target pc, and added the user name and password I was logged in under on the host to the target pc, then added it to the share permissions of the folder in question.

Clear instructions. Easy to follow. No jargon. Pictures helped. Didn't match my screen. Incorrect instructions. Too technical. Not enough information. Not enough pictures. Any additional feedback? Submit feedback. Thank you for your feedback!