How to Fix the Windows 11 File Sharing Not Working Problem [Tutorial]
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- Опубликовано: 18 июл 2021
- How to Fix the Windows 11 File Sharing Not Working Problem [Tutorial]
One of the most powerful features available in modern computing is the use of local area networks that allow you to share movies or music files across all the devices in your home or office. You can use a network to set up a media server, to share printers and scanners or just to share files between two machines. Although in principle networking your computers is fairly simple, in practice it can be a pain to get it running properly. A common problem is the inability of one machine to see shared folders on another machine. In Windows 11 this problem has been fixed to a great extent, but it does still occur.
If you added a new Windows 11 computer to your corporate or home network, you may have already noticed that Windows 11 can't find all (or some) network computers, when you explore 'Network' (from 'File Explorer'), while Windows 7 and 8 PC's can see all of them. The problem exists even after enabling the Network Discovery on the Windows 11 PC.
Issues addressed in this tutorial:
computer not showing display
computer not showing up on network windows 11
computer not showing hard drive
computer not showing in network windows 11
computer not showing available networks
computer not showing available wifi
computer not showing any networks
computer not showing available networks windows 11
computer not showing all available wifi networks
computer not showing file names
computer not showing hotspot
home network computer not showing up
computer not showing my wifi network
computer not showing my network
my computer not showing wireless networks
my computer not showing up on network windows 11
my computer not showing wifi
my computer not showing usb drive
why is my computer not showing available networks
computer not showing wifi networks
computer not showing on network windows 11
This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops, and tablets running the Windows 11 operating system (Home, Professional, Enterprise, Education) from all supported hardware manufactures, like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, and Samsung. 
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Sharing was working perfectly on Windows 10, updated to 11 and it was no longer. Why does Windows not maintain settings between updates, this is 2021 after all!! Thank you so much for this tutorial, worked like a charm
Maybe the answer MS has given up on the home user....This is like a tutorial for an IT support technician
Thanks. Can't believe Windows makes file sharing so damn difficult. It's ridiculous.
Dude - you are SO DAMN GOOD : snappy, direct, clear, crisp, precise, to the point : you are a godsent !! if only 10% of the tutorials on youTube were at your standard, that will be game changer.
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@@MDTechVideos you've just made my day. on both computers - have a great week-end
Thanks. Can't believe Windows makes file sharing so damn difficult in windows 11
Great video, straight to the point. Thank you!
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Great video, straight to the point. Thank you! MS really has their heads up their asses.
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The only tutorial that works, and answers all the common issues. Well done.
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Usually, an OS update is supposed to improve your ease of use and user experience, but microsoft was like, "lets make it more difficult to do basic things" There are still people using Windows 7 because of this. What the actual fuk.
Awesome!!. Winter 2021 I updated to Win11Pro for purposes of security needed for some of our tax/accounting software. We have 4 computers on the network. Networking stuff has been awful. Replaced one of the computers last week and the frustration began again. Your vid was a godsend!! One of the machines needed all the tweaks, one needed none, and one became visible on the first step. Awesome!
Many Thanks! always to the point and very helpful
OMG, finally a solution that works... I have done so much searching online and majority of content is either outdated (title says windows 11, but conternt is windows 7) or the tutorials are about how to turn on wifi and have nothing to do with my issues... I used this step by step on both my PC's at same time and at end.. all is working again.. Thank you
Fixed our issue, and I came off as a hero in our IT Dept. 5 stars awarded to you! Thanks!
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Great video. The adding the SMB1.0/CIFS Client worked perfect for me. Windows was not prompting me for user/password with SMB folder locations. installing this, restarting, fixed the issue. Thanks!
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Thank you very kindly for your help, I’m still having problems with the folders that were shared from my desktop 🖥 to my laptop 💻, I cannot figure out how to to disable those folders that are still being shared in the laptop
Brilliant! fixed the issue for me. Thank You
after all this year and trying every tutorial available this is the only thing that works.thank you
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Updated to windows 11 and Huawei Share stopped working. Used the second part of your vid and it works again. Thank you for sharing!!!! Keep up the great work.
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Excellent. That was a massive help and worked perfectly. Thanks dude.
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Thank you so much mate. I want to add 1 thing - Whatever steps are mentioned in these video should be implemented on both device.
OMG IT HAS WORKED! Thank you very much for this straight to the point tutorial with techniques which noone talks about. I am excited
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@@MDTechVideos Yes it helped, but another problem showed up. My PC (connected using ethernet) is invisible for other laptops (using WI-FI) so they cannot access my shared files... Is there a chance you could help me please?
@@spaceman.6304 same issue. my pc has win11 and laptop win10, can't access shared files from both
Great Work Has Been Done , Thank You
I think switching on the FDPHOST service helped the drive to finally appear in the explorer after creating it. Thank you, you saved me a lot of time 😀
Thank you man. Thank you thank you. I spent so much time trying to figure out what's happening. This silly thing was the key.
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After following your instructions in this tutorial I am now able to access the shared folders of a Windows XP from a Windows 11 but I am still unable to access the Windows 11 shared folders from a Windows XP - The Windows 11 computer icon does show up on the list of Workgroup Computers on a Windows XP but if you click on it you get a message that access is denied - may not have permission to access said resource - Do you have any suggestions on how to solve this problem - Thank you in advance for what ever suggestions you might have
Thank you! That saved me from either pulling my hair out or throwing my whole computer through a closed window.
Thanks! I got it working on 2 of my recent (2022) PC laptops running Windows 11. It actually took a while (1 hr), then then the "network computers) showed up in File Explorer..
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Amazing worked like a charm.
Excellent video .. I was struggling with it from so many days
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Great video. Fixed the issue
Hi! THanks for the video. My windows features list doesn't include SMB 1.0/CIFS client item,.. help please!
Appreciated, really helpful content
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THANK YOU!
Great job. It enables me to solve a problem.
Thanks a lot.
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wich software you had use to map the drive?
first tip solved the problem. Thanks so much bro
Thanks MDTech appreciated...
Thanks for the video :) i did all steps, now i can receive from PC to my mobile, but it still failed the other way around! any hint to fix that?
Thanks a lot 👌👍 Appreciate Microsoft for taking great care in this version wrt security issues... Thanks mate.
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Heres what worked for me, for anyone connecting two machines together owned by you on your local network where your account is using a microsoft account instead of a local account, put in your 10 digit phone number as the user, and leave the password blank.
Insane that Microsoft would allow this.
after all is done, should i undo the changes i made or just let it be? for security purposes
How do I drag files from folders to Google Apps in Windows 11, as I did before?
At last, after 12mths of jerking around, I have bidirectional networking between my W10 & W11 HP Notebooks - Thank you.
Perfect solutions, thanks
You're welcome!
This did the trick. Absolutely insane that this is the fix for something that should be incredibly simple
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Thanks it really helped me
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I did exactly as you told and my file sharing was working for quite some time. but this morning I dont know why, it stopped working again ... I dont think I've made changes to my settings and I double checked and everything looks the same... why isnt it working :( ?
I thought you had to select Public. You selected Private whilst your Network and Sharing center says you are Public? I'm a bit confused. I'm finding Windows 11 to Windows 11 transfer is very unstable. One minute it works, then later on, the Computers are not seeing each other. My sharing W11 to W11 was working fine last night, but not this morning. Sharing works fine between W11 to W10. I have now given up trying to transfer W11 to W11. Great video though. Thank you.
Thanks, the upnp part helps.
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OMG I don't know why Windows make things so complicated. I don't even know what I've enabled but problem fixed by following this video.
My hate on Windows growing stronger and stronger day by day.
Thank you so much!
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I've done all this stuff and I still can't access shared files on 2 other Windnows 8.1 pcs on my network. Both of the 8.1 pcs can see each other but my Win11 pc always asks for a password for the shares on the other pcs despite password requirements being turned off everywhere. When trying to access a share on the Winn 11 pc from one of the Win 8 pcs it just says the network path is not available. I'm pretty frustrated with it .
same here, just your win8.1 is win7 in my case. so frustrated and can't get a solution till now !
@@rockit365 I posted about my problem on the Microsoft forums and actually got a helpful response fairly quick. The tech told me to make a local account, log into that and see if it fixed the problem and it did. Turns out there is a bug in Win 10 and 11 where being logged in to a Microsoft account breaks the network for some reason.
hey, i get it to work now. I use //ip instead of //name, then it works as before !!
How exactly were you able to get it to work?
@@angeljuarbe5528 Did you try making a local account and using that to log into windows? In my case, loggin in to a local account worked for me. I eventually had to re-install Win11 so i installed a version called Tiny11 which strips down the MS ISO to a very basic and small install. After that I never registered my MS account as a login account, only using a local account. If you search Tiny11 you can find lots of info on it and my PC runs way better with Tiny11 as it does not have a lot of the bloat and telemetry running.
Bro their is no media sharing options in network properties
i just wondering how did you record the restart process
if anybody knows pls tell me
thank you so much!
You're welcome!
I followed your tutorial and it was great. However, since Microsoft removed the control panel function, where the settings existed. Now, it is on the other section and when activating it showing me that its one and discover. However, when I go back one tab and go back it is like it they are turned off again
Thank you, this has been driving me crazy. seriously though, MS have been making OSes for PCs for decades now and they still can't arrange networking in such a way that it makes the average person want to become a rooftop sniper?
I watched and applied all of the suggested options on my Win11 Pro laptop and still I cannot access my network shared drives on my Win10 Pro desktop. I only have the issue on the laptop when I attempt to use a USB hub (this is the 2nd hub I've tried) connected to a USB "C" port. If I establish a WiFi connection from the laptop to my network I can access the shared drives with full access. When I attempt using the Ethernet cable connected to the USB Hub in the laptop I cannot access any of the 5 shared drives. When I attempt to access any drive I get "M:\ is not accessible. A specified logon session does not exist. It may already have been terminated."
Perfect~!!!! thank you so vry much~!!
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brilliant, thank you!!!!
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Smb direct isn't there for me, I need it to connect to my NAS, how can I get it
Why did you show the whole time of reboot. 2x
Thank you! I can stop banging my head off the wall now.
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Resolved! Thank you, sir.
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Man you really saved my nerves and sanity, thank you for that
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Solved my problem in 2:42. Well done.
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the best video i solved a game crashing problem :)
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SWEET!!!!!! Thank you.
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Thank you broo love U so much
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Yeh, MD Tech did it again! , awesome, did the first step & didnt work then only the first part of the next 3, didnt have to restart & bingo! it worked, just subscribed and thinking about Joining? thank you! Pack MD
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great job this is what i'm looking for while having windows 11, thank you man your video is very very helpful for me 💯
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Thanks a Million!!
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Excellent video, but it did not fix my problem. I can share folders and files on my windows 11 desktop to my Dell Laptop, both running win11 home edition, and updates up to date. But I cannot get Network to show either the Laptop or the Desktop on the net view!!! All settings are correct as far as I can tell because I can share files and folders between the two PC's, and net view even shows an older PC running win10, but not these two NEW ones running Win 11, even though share works between the two. Why won't Net View work????'
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Thanks, it was helpful. It does find my PC name now on other Computers. But when I click on the name to get access to the file, Windows notify me that Windows can not access the file. What is the problem?
Thanks in advance
i have the same problem but i still haven't tried to do the things in the tutorial
Local network with modem-router with 2 pcs.
1. PC windows 11
2. PC windows 10.
pc win 10 can show itself and the pc win 11
pc win 11 show only itself. in networks in windows explorer. Although it can access pc win 10 shared folder if I put on address field the net name of pc win 10 or its ip.
I did exactly the same adjustments.
both pcs have ESET internet security. in both i put in trusted zone same ip zone.
Thanks. I can now access my NAS my IP, but the option to map a network drive is not available anywhere. I have followed several guides, the menu option is not in the location where it should be, and right clicking also doesn't work.
Microsoft has become a very pathetic and end user abusive organization, after all, these days I don't know anyone that doesn't use some type of file sharing and the latest OS has it disabled?
Thanks for the video, this seems to happen each time I have a major update? is this correct? It seems to uncheck the SMB 1.0/CIFS Client box... once this it updated with a tick mine all works...
thanks it did solve my problem but after restarting the PCs, the problem starts again, it works sometimes and sometimes not
You're welcome!
Other PC's and Servers still do not show up on network, only shows self. This is a microshaft winblows issue! Ironically, other PC's and Servers? can see the Windows 11 PC. Hmmmmm.
Still not working for me. My desktop (ethernet) can see my laptop, but my laptop (wifi) can NOT see my desktop. Both are on the latest Windows 11 build. When I first installed the beta builds, networking and sharing JUST worked. Now, suddenly, it's all broken in the public build.
Same here, but I found a successful workaround. In File Explorer, Network, my Dell27 PC can browse without issue to shared folders on my HP laptop. On my HP laptop, in File Explorer, Network, when I click my Dell27 PC, it says, "Windows cannot access \\Dell27. You do not have permissions to access \\Dell27. Contact your network administrator to request access." I followed all the steps in this very helpful video and many other suggestions from other sources still without success. Here's the workaround that allows me to browser my Dell27 from my HP laptop. I experimented with folder sharing on the Dell27: WIN+E, This PC, and browsed to the folder to be shared; right-click Properties; Sharing tab, Advanced Sharing; Share this folder, OK. [I’m not sure of the exact steps I took, but I think these are fairly accurate.] A prompt appeared saying, "Your folder is shared. You can e-mail someone links to these shared items, or copy and paste the links into another app." I clicked the e-mail hyperlink, Outlook opened and I sent the email to myself. The email arrived with an email Subject line of "I've shared files with you" and a message " I've shared some of my files or folders with you. To open them, just click the link(s) below--everything inside the parenthesis is an active hyperlink.
Public (file://DELL27/Users/Public)
I opened the email on the HP laptop that was unable to browse to Dell27. When I click the link in the parentheses, Public (file://DELL27/Users/Public), File Explorer opens the Public folder and any files under that folder on the Dell27 without issue. In Windows Explore on my HP, I pinned the Dell27 Public folder to my Quick Access list (right-click Quick Access, Pin current folder to Quick access) and that's how I browse from my HP to my Dell27 Public folder instead of using WIN+E, Network. I tried to share my own User folder on my Dell27 to recreate that prompt to e-mail someone, but I couldn't recreate that prompt-sharing is complicated and I'm not sure of every step I took initially. So I tried I second workaround. I edited the link sent via email to myself previously. I copied and pasted this line from the email: (file://DELL27/Users/Public), into a new Word document. I right-clicked the link, Edit Hyperlink. In the Edit Hyperlink dialog, in the Look In field, I browsed to the desired folder on DELL27 (I wanted access to my own Users folder on my Dell), OK. I clicked the edited link in Word, my Users folder on Dell27 opened without issue, and I pinned that link to my Quick Access folder. This is a long workaround, but a successful one. I'm beyond frustrated after troubleshooting for a week trying to fix this. At least I have this workaround and I hope it helps someone else.
@@arlenezimmerly718 too long
Thanks! 🖖
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excellent!
This was the best !!!!!
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You sir, are a legend.
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Advanced Sharing Settings in win11 still don't set to ON, after I close this menu and comeback again, all settings in private and public network still set off
ok, its all firewall, just turn it off, and local network start working between my second PC)
I've tried everything I can find. No Joy. Also what are network credentials. If McAfee blocking through the fire wall. I'm ready to give up and transfer files by sneaker net.
This fixed the issue with my retronas retrosmb share showing up when viewing Network in Windows 11
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Thank you sir it’s working
Great
thank you xoxo
You are so welcome
Thanks
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This issue is still current, insane that they ship windows 11 in this state...
Thanks it's working
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thanks mane
every time after windows update, this issue is repeated
I love the ᵍᵒᵒᵈᵇʸᵉ at the end
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Window 11 has increased the use of Linux at an unbelievable rate.
thank worked for me 💋❤❤❤
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Warning: Enabling SMB 1.0 is a security risk, the protocol has a large vulnerability. That being said, it would probably be fine to enable on your home computer.
If i disable it will file sharing work?
@@sunzalea3257 no
@@sunzalea3257 Intermittently, which is frustrating.
Strange enought, I went thought all these steps, enabled CIFS and still not be able to access a Linux Share. On my phone works so it is a Windows issue