Simple File Sharing in Windows 7. Custom Search. Simple file sharing in Windows 7 is pretty easy and common to be used to share file/folder with other users that use Windows XP, Vista or 7 in same workgroup. Due to other users are allowed to access the shared file/folder without doing authentication with username and password, and so we call it simple file sharing. It’s not safe! Let’s do a quick check. Go to Start and click on Control Panel. Proceed to click View network status and tasks in Control Panel window. Here you can right click on the network adapter (can be wireless adapter or wired Ethernet adapter) that you are using and click Properties. In this case, my network location type is home network. Click on Save changes at last. Let’s start to enable file sharing in Windows 7, right click the file or folder you plan to share, select Share with and click on Specific people.. It also won't appear when you select files outside your personal folder. In this case, I added user Guest and also set the Read permission level. Finally click Share to do sharing. Basically you have done file sharing in windows 7. Then go to Sharing tab, it will show that folder is shared. That folder and content can be accessed from other computers now by referring to that network path. Remember to disable this file sharing after completing your tasks! Check the group or user names that are allowed to access this file/folder, and make sure the user/group that you allowed to access during sharing process just now is listed here as well (usually will be added automatically when you do file/folder sharing), if not click Edit to add those missing user/group. Or the user will get prompt saying that you might not have permission to use this network resource when try to access this shared file/folder from other computer. How To Fix Windows 10 Network adapter Problems? Reader Question: “Hi Wally, I’m using Windows 10 on a laptop which is giving me issues with the network. The objective for this lesson is to explain all the network sharing settings that are available in Windows and what they do. It sounds simple, isn’t it?
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