Network between 10 and 7. How to create and configure a local network between two computers
It's no secret that many people connected two PCs to XP through a regular cable or through Wi-Fi modems, but the local network setting in the Windows 10 operating system has changed, and significantly. Still, a home network is possible. Almost every house now has a router, because there are several computers, and we'll see how the settings are made in this case. Before we create connections, let's ping the connection, and then find out what is needed to successfully complete this procedure. Because many already at this step will solve all their problems.
The topic of today's review is not just setting up a network in Windows 10, but ensuring interaction between two PCs. Although, with the development and cheaper services of providers, it is more and more profitable to upload files to network storages instead of transferring data over a local network. The very concept of localization is going out of fashion. When we even play, we are now not in Diabolo on pirates, but in CS (sometimes, however, with bots). A configured PC pool is bad because it can be detected by hackers. And we don't need it at all.
Before starting work
It is generally accepted that Windows is one of the worst platforms for networking. Therefore, try to act as close to the regulatory framework as possible. For example, name the workgroup WorkGroup. Somehow, our PC didn’t even see itself because - no, it’s for chickens to laugh at - that one of the shared folders ... was empty. Following this, the laptop disappeared from the field of view of the entire group. And when we wrote the text into an empty folder, he did see himself, but he did not appear in the field of view of the rest of the network.
Hackers call the Microsoft product, none other than MustDie, which is translated from English as having no right to exist. But we do not care about all these features. Instead, he will try to set up the network, because the floor is uneven for a bad dancer. And one more note: the easiest way is to connect the Home versions of Windows together. Why? But Pro is for the smart ones, let them break their heads!
ping
Pinging allows you to establish that a subscriber configured in a certain way is ready to communicate over a working cable. In this case, the operation is successfully completed when access to files and folders over the network is enabled. Let's check:
PC name and group
Windows 10 retains the requirements of previous generations. However, we do not agree that PCs should still be in the same group. Here is a screenshot from the first one:
... and from the second.
The names of the working groups do not match. So, nonsense - that it is necessary to correct the names. But it can be done for performance reasons more action or pro forma.
Create folders for access
Creating folders is also good because in the process of this, the OS itself knows how to configure it, and will automatically install it as it should.
Now everything will be fine. The job is done, and you do not need to reboot anything. Here is a screenshot from one of the PCs on the local network. Even two screenshots.
So, if it doesn’t work out, write personally to Billy Gates and tell everything, everything about the fact that his OS is called Mastdayka, but - “shh ...!” - not a word about us. Even virtual PCs (and with real ones) can be connected to the network without problems. This is the easiest way to transfer a large amount of information:
- Between two virtual PCs.
- Between real and virtual PC.
I'm being asked for a password...
In the visibility settings, at the very bottom there is an option where you need to disable password sharing (Win + I, Networks, Ethernet, Change advanced options ...). Here's a screenshot for those who can't find it themselves.
After that, the password will no longer be asked.
Via WiFi
We honestly don't know what exactly to write in this section:
- Power on the router.
- Through the local address (usually 192.168.0.1) go to home page devices.
- Enter your admin username and password.
- Start distributing Wi-Fi and write down its password.
- Connect with wireless adapters to the router.
- Do everything else exactly the same.
That is, there is no difference whether to configure Ethernet or Wi-Fi.
How to share a folder
2 pcs by cable
The patch cord cable should not be the usual one with which we connect to the router, but a cross one. Then you should set up local network as shown above. The peculiarity is that usually IP addresses are assigned by the router. But since we discarded it, we had to do this work ourselves. The connection is carried out in the same manner (configuring folders, network visibility, and so on).
It is no longer possible to create a local network using the wireless protocol. But you can try to set up an access point and connect to it. It is quite real, although it takes a long time. We have a separate review on this topic.
In the Windows 10 operating system, network settings mean the configuration of the TCP / IP protocol on the network adapter, as well as the settings for accessing the computer from the network (local or global).
1. Internet protocol version 4 (TCP/IPv4)
Click the Start button and enter the words in the search bar:
View network connections
The result should look like this:
We click on the icon from the control panel and we open the window " network connections Windows 10":
Select the one you want and right-click on it. The properties window will open. These are the basic network adapter settings in Windows 10:
Now we need to find the parameter IP version 4(TCP/IPv4) and click on it twice with the left button of the rodent. So we get into the configuration of the main network protocol IP. There are two options for setting it up:
1 - dynamic IP address.
This option is relevant when a DHCP server is running in the local area and the computer already receives its IP from it. It is usually used when connecting a PC to a home WiFi router or to a carrier's network. The protocol protocol configuration in this case looks like this:
That is, the system receives all addresses automatically from a special server.
2 - static IP address. In this case, IP needs to be registered statically, that is, this address will be assigned to this particular computer on permanent basis. It looks like this:
What addresses should be entered in the fields?
Look, the screenshot above shows an option with connecting to a router or modem with DHCP server turned off.
The gateway IP is the address of the router itself on the network. It will also be used as the primary DNS.
Secondary DNS can be specified by the provider's server, or public DNS servers Google (8.8.8.8) or Yandex (77.88.8.8).
The mask used in home networks in 99 cases out of 100 is a regular 24-bit mask: 255.255.255.0 .
The IP address must be selected from the subnet of the gateway. That is, if the gateway is 192.168.1.1, then you can take any from the computer from 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.254.
The main thing is that he should not be busy with anything else.
Click on OK and close all windows! The main network protocol in Windows 10 is configured.
2. Sharing
The configuration of these network settings is responsible for accessing the computer from the network. To get here, in the Network and Internet section, select your adapter (WiFi or Ethernet) and click on the "Change advanced sharing settings" icon. This window will open:
Here you can see network access settings for several profiles: Private, Guest or all networks. Choose the one that has a mark at the end (current profile).
First comes Network discovery. It is responsible for whether your PC is visible from the network or not. If you are connected to a local network at home or at work, then it is better to leave it on. But when the computer is connected to the Internet directly, then in order to avoid threats and attacks, it is better to disable detection.
Next comes Sharing Files and Printers. If it is enabled, then anyone can connect and use the printer that is connected to your PC. For a home network, this does not matter, but in a corporate or public network it would be better to turn it off.
Last parameters - Connecting a homegroup. It is responsible for guest access from the network to the computer. If you allow Windows to manage connections, access will be through the Guest account. On a home network, this is more convenient. For others, it's better to use Accounts users so that no one can access you.
We save the changes.
These are the main network Windows settings 10, responsible for the network and connecting the computer to the Internet.
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Basically, a Wi-Fi router is used as an access point to the Internet. But it can act as a connecting element when creating a home local area network to connect all the devices that are in your home. And it doesn't matter if it's done via Wi-Fi or using a patch cord. You will learn more about how to create a home network through a Wi-Fi router correctly and configure it in this article.
Benefits of a home LAN
A local network is a group of devices (computers, laptops, smartphones, tablets, etc.) connected to each other using a wired or wireless communication. The main advantages of such a group:
- direct transfer of data and files between objects without the need to use removable media(flash drives, external HDD or SSD drives);
- Internet access;
- access to shared network resources (you can print information on the printer from any device connected to the network);
- building a common playing area (many modern games have an online game function).
Router selection
To create a home LAN with using Wi-Fi router will need:
- Wi-Fi router with DHCP support;
- connected devices (among them there must be at least one stationary PC).
When choosing a router, you should know what type of connection the provider uses. The telephone line requires an ADSL connector in the selected model. When using a separate cable, the router must have a WAN socket.
Important! Recently ADSL-connection is practically not used.
Take into account the number of LAN ports in the router, through which peripheral computers or laptops are connected to it via wired connection. The standard quantity is 4 ports. If this amount is not enough for you, use a network switch.
Use a router that works with the 802.11n standard because it provides better performance and a larger signal coverage area compared to the 802.11g standard.
Creation
For example, the setting will be shown on the Asus RT-N12E router, to which one PC is connected via a patch cord, and the second via a wireless connection.
Make sure the router is connected to the internet. The corresponding indicator on the front panel should flash. If for some reason there is no access to the World Wide Web, check the quality of the wire connection to the WAN connector or update the router firmware to the latest version by downloading it from the manufacturer's website.
Checking the physical connection
Before starting to create a network, check the connection between the computers connected to the router:
If there is an exchange of packets between devices, you can create a local network. IN otherwise check the connection of all devices to the router or configure the antivirus. In the second case, in the program settings, set the switch that allows network sharing to the “on” position.
Setting
Check the name of the devices and which workgroup they belong to (both entries must consist of Latin letters). If necessary, change these parameters:
Important! Follow these steps for all devices that connect to the local network. The workgroup must match in name, but the computer name does not.
Set up a network by creating a homegroup. For more information on how to do this, see the article "Creating, configuring, deleting a homegroup on computers with Windows 10". Repeat the same steps on all devices that are connected to the network, then reboot them and check if all connected gadgets are displayed in the Network section.
Sharing folders and files
To share a specific folder or drive on your home network, follow these steps:
Connecting two or more routers on the same network
Often, a user needs to connect two or more routers on the same home network. First, think about what result you want to get:
- combining two local networks;
- creating a common access point for accessing the Internet;
- connecting to a second router various devices.
Routers can be wired or wirelessly connected.
Wired
Wireless
When connecting via wireless on the secondary router, set the search to wireless networks. After that, enable the DCHP function on the main and automatic detection IP addresses on the secondary router.
Installing and configuring the printer
If you need to connect the printer to a local network, read the article “Setting up a home printer to print from a PC under Windows control 10". It describes all the features in detail.
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Setting up a local network through a WiFi router
Let's figure out how to set up a local network through a router and what it is, because many people in the apartment have several computers connected via Wi-Fi, and even more so, everyone has a gadget: a tablet, a smartphone, a desktop, with which it is convenient to lie on the couch. But how inconvenient it is when you want to transfer a photo or a song from one computer to another, or from a phone to a tablet, for example, or to a desktop computer, because you can’t do it that easily over Wi-Fi. In this case, you have to suffer with wires or flash drives, look for bluetooth, but the fact is that your WiFi router is essentially a single node, a server that connects these devices into one single local Wi-Fi home network! In this article, I will tell you how to create a LAN connection through a router, and you will no longer need to go for a flash drive and wires from your phone, you can do it while lying on your favorite sofa, transfer files from device to device via Wi-Fi. Fi, using the shared network storage without making unnecessary movements.
Scheme of connecting various devices to the local network, via a WiFi router.
The purpose of the local network
Let's say a few more words about the local network, and why we might need it. A wireless local area network is essentially a kind of network data storage, which is formed as a result of connecting several computer devices through Wi-Fi, a wifi router in this case as a server. Its purpose is not only to transfer files, but also to communicate with each other of all devices connected to it, you can communicate using it from neighboring rooms, play network games, such as Counter-Strike, and also connect others digital devices, for example, create a connection to a network printer, scanner, camera and other devices that can connect to the router via Wi-Fi.
Settings
And so, what, why, and for what, we figured it out, let's start setting up the local network. This setting similarly carried out on any Windows operating system, including new Windows 10. It’s easy for us to make a local network connection, the fact is that if you use a WiFi Router, then you already have it and configured it, you just didn’t know about it! We only need to create a shared access to all the necessary folders on computers, and they will automatically go to the network storage via Wi-Fi.
Open the Network and Sharing Connection Center.
Click on the network icon in the taskbar with LMB or RMB (Right or Left Click) to open the Local Area Connection Center or Sharing Center.
In the “Network and Sharing Management Connection Center”, we check that our active network is the “Home Network”, a house should be built:
At the top, bold indicates the name of our WiFi network.
Another type of network may be specified: “Enterprise network” or “Public network”, in this case, click on the link with the name and change the network type:
Click on " home network».
We save for ourselves the password from the Home Group, click Done.
Now our home local network has been created and we can connect to it via Wi-Fi.
Changing the LAN password
If you don't like memorizing these scribbles, you can set your own password.
Open file sharing
Our network storage is already set up, but an important thing needs to be done, the fact is that access to all files and folders on computers is not provided by default and this must be done manually. There are two options here, password protection, and without. For the home, of course, it is convenient not to bother with passwords, we will consider this option.
Disable password for files
We open the change in the parameters of the home group, as described above.
Click "Change advanced sharing settings".
Let's open both groups.
Set network discovery. Turn on Printer and File Sharing. We give access to read and write files.
We turn off the password, otherwise the system will require you to enter it every time you open files.
If you do not disable password protection, you will receive this window when you try to open the network of another computer.
We filled in the parameters of the first group, in the "General" group, fill in everything in the same way, this group is intended when you have several accounts on your PC.
Opening shared folders
Now everything is ready, it remains to share those folders on the disk that we want to use and will automatically be visible to all devices connected to the router via cable or Wi-Fi. I will show on the example of my local drive, you can do this with any folder on your computer.
We can see that while files are not available on our local network, to do this, open "My Computer" and select the "Network" tab, on the left side of the menu.
Click on the folder, select Properties.
In the "Properties" window, open the "Access" tab, click on the "Advanced settings ..." button
Check the box next to "Share this folder" and click OK.
After that, our C drive is available to all users of our home group.
Connecting devices to the network
Windows
After a local network has been created on one of the computers, on other computers in the "Network and Sharing Connection Center", in the view of active networks, you will be able to join it " home group: Can join. Click the link provided. If there is none, then in order to be able to join the home group, it is necessary to set the network location to "Home network".
To change the network to Home, click on the "Public Network" link and select the "Home Network" item, after which the network type will change.
Click the "Join" button
We mark the necessary elements that will be publicly available from this computer. Click the Next button.
Enter the password for our homegroup. Click the Next button.
The setup is completed, click the "Finish" button.
We check that the files that we have expanded on the main computer have become available on the laptop.
Similarly, you can allow sharing for all files and folders on any computer that is connected to a homegroup.
Smartphone
We figured out Windows, let's see how we can see our shared files via Wi-Fi, for example, from an Android tablet or phone. To start, we need special program. I recommend that you download ES File Explorer.
Software launch.
After the scan is completed, we have our files located on other computers that we have placed in our homegroup.
Also not a computer, we will see the files that are hosted on Android device in storage. Setup completed.
Good to see
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Setting up a local network in Windows 10. Home network via Wi-Fi router between Windows 10 and Windows 7
In a previous article, I wrote about setting up a local network on Windows 7. But, since the number of Windows 10 users is growing every day, I decided to prepare instructions for setting up a local network in Windows 10. Following this instruction, you can combine everything into a home local network In the previous article, I wrote about setting up a local network on Windows 7. But, since the number of Windows 10 (Windows 10) users is growing every day, I decided to prepare instructions for setting up a local network in Windows 10 (Windows 10). According to this instruction, you will be able to combine all the computers that you have connected to one Wi-Fi router into your home local network. I will show by the example of setting up a network between a computer on Windows 10 (Windows 10) and Windows 7. But, computers on Windows 8, or several computers on Windows 10 (Windows 10) can also participate in this network. The instruction is universal, and if you have several ordinary stationary computers and laptops connected to one router, then you can easily connect them to a local network. And at the same time, it does not matter at all what version of Windows they work on (except for Windows XP).
After creating a local network, you will be able to:
- Exchange files between computers on your home network.
- Use printer sharing. For example: you connected a printer to one computer in the local network, and documents can be printed from other computers.
- Play games on the local network.
And all this can be done over the air. If your computers and laptops are connected to the router via a Wi-Fi network. This is how you get it. You can connect some computers via cable, and laptops, for example, via Wi-Fi. Everything will work.
I set up a local network between two computers (a desktop PC and a laptop). One works on Windows 10 (Windows 10), and the second on Windows 7. I set it up through the home group. I think that this is the most correct and safe way. You can also configure it by disabling password-protected sharing, as I did in the instructions for setting up a local network in Windows 7.
How does a local network work, through setting up using a homegroup? A very important point, since the settings are a little confusing there, the main thing is to understand how everything works, and it will be easier to set it up. So, we create a home group on one of the computers and get a password (I created it on Windows 7, it doesn't matter). And all other computers that we want to network, we simply join the home group using the password received. That's all. It is this scheme that we will now consider in more detail.
I made a small diagram for clarity (you may have more or fewer computers, and the printer does not have to be connected):
Before proceeding to the settings, be sure to check the time and date. Check that the time and date on all computers that will participate in the network are the same.
Create a homegroup in Windows 7
If, for example, you have all computers on Windows 10 (Windows 10), then we create a home group on one of the computers with "ten", everything is exactly the same there. Or in Windows 8, for example.
Click the left mouse button on the Internet connection icon in the notification panel. Then, select Network and Sharing Center.
There will be our connection to the router (via cable, or Wi-Fi). It is important that it has the status Home network. If you have a Public network like mine in the screenshot, then click on this link and select Home network.
Close the window with the choice of network location. Now, our connection is with the status "Home Network". Go to the Homegroup section.
Click on the Create Homegroup button.
Select the checkboxes for the items you want to share (public folders) and click Next.
Write down or take a photo of the password you get. With this password, we will connect other computers to our network.
On this, the creation of the home group is completed. If you go back to the Network and Sharing Center - Homegroup, you can remember the password, change it, leave the group, change sharing settings, etc.
That's it, the group has been created. We have a password. Now we connect the necessary computers in our network to the home group.
Setting up a local network in Windows 10 (Windows 10): connecting to a homegroup
Let's move on to another computer. Now I will show, using an example of a computer with Windows 10 (Windows 10), how to connect to a homegroup to create a home local network. Using this scheme, you can connect not only computers with Windows 10 (Windows 10) installed, but also with Windows 7 and Windows 8.
Already according to the standard scheme, right-click on the Internet icon, and select the Network and Sharing Center. Let's go to the Homegroup.
If you get the message "Homegroup is not available because you are not connected to your home network.", then click on Change network location, and click on the Yes button.
We wait a bit, and we see a message that we can join the home group. Click on the Join button.
A password request will appear. Specify the password that we received when creating the home group on another computer. Press Ok.
A message will appear that you have joined the homegroup. Click Done.
If you open the Network and Sharing Center - Homegroup, you can set up sharing, leave the group, see the password, etc.
That's it, the local network between computers is already working. We open the explorer (This computer), go to the network tab on the left, and see the computers on the local network. We can open them and view the folders that are shared. A computer with Windows 10 (Windows 10) sees a computer with Windows 7 installed on the network without problems.
In the same way, a computer on Windows 7 sees and enters a computer with Windows 10 (Windows 10). You can connect other computers this way. One condition is that they are connected to your router.
What to do next? How to use the local network?
It all depends on the purpose for which you combined computers into one network.
- If you want to play online, then everything should work already. Sometimes, antiviruses block such connections. Therefore, if problems arise when computers will not see each other, then just try temporarily disabling the antivirus.
- To share files, you can use public folders. Just copy the files, for example, to the "My Pictures" folder (provided that we shared this folder during the setup process), and they will be available from all computers on the network. If you want to share your folder on a local drive, then follow these instructions. See after the heading "Setting up file and folder sharing".
- And on setting up printer sharing, I will prepare a separate article.
Here are some tips. I hope the article was useful to you.
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How to create a home network through a wifi router
Many users, probably, quite often asked themselves questions: “How to make working with several computers at home more convenient? How to transfer files faster between home devices, including not only desktop computers, but also laptops, tablets, smartphones? After all, how do you create a home (or local, whatever suits you) network?” This article will focus on the importance of a local network for comfortable workflows and file sharing at home, directly creating this type of network (mainly for devices with the Windows operating system), connecting and configuring additional devices.
- Introduction
- Additionally
- Creating a local network
- Additionally
- Conclusion
What is a home or local network?
Introduction
First of all, it is worth noting that such a type of network as a local one has been used for a relatively long time. Often not even in houses or apartments, but in offices and other work premises, one way or another related to the implementation of work on computers and other computing devices. It is also important - if you undertook to set up a local network between computers via wifi, you can later connect other devices such as printers, special peripherals and even a TV (of course, provided that it has a wifi module).
Now about transferring files. After setting up your home network, you can share files of any format and size between connected devices. But keep in mind that if you, say, want to send wifi networks some movie in average quality, be prepared to experience some complications in the form of degraded local network performance or excessive load on your wifi. Setting up a connection is not particularly difficult.
Additionally
But more, of course, the positive sides. After setting up, for example, you can have a session in some newfangled video game with the possibility of online matches with minimal wifi traffic, using only the resources of two or more devices and the wifi signal only as a direct channel for transferring information from one computer to another without access to the internet itself.
When deciding to connect to a local network through a wifi router, it will be possible to connect smartphones with tablets, as mentioned above, but their functionality in a file sharing environment can be significantly limited compared to personal computers.
Creating a local network
After long introductions, you can proceed directly to the very process of creating a connection and start configuring it. All you need to set up is wifi router with support for the DHCP protocol and the laptop or PC itself. Before connecting to your home network, you need to make sure that the router is turned on. DHCP server. This is important because this network protocol used to get and automatically fill in information about devices (ip address, etc.).
In the future, you will need to dig a little into the "Workgroup" item in the computer's control panel (Start - Control Panel - System). This setting is important for operational safety. It is needed to prevent the interception of any files when they are transferred between computers by intruders. All these procedures are performed in the operating room. windows system 7. Then the section "Computer name, domains, settings working group”, in which it clicks on “Change settings”, and then on “Change”. In the window that opens, the user can configure settings such as the workgroup name, device name, and a number of other functions. The workgroup name line most likely contains the default Workgroup.
The group name, as well as the computer name, can be changed, but you need to remember that the workgroup name must be the same for all computers connected to the home network. After setting up the names, you should restart the computer and do a similar reboot procedure on all connected devices.
Next: Start - Control Panel - Network and Access Management. In the active networks section, click on Homegroup - Ready to create - Create homegroup. Then the system will create a password (it is better to write it down separately on paper, it will be needed when connecting via wifi). After that, you will need to go to Change advanced access settings and disable password protection everywhere (otherwise the connection through the router will be impossible).
While the article has not come to the connection itself, some subtleties should be mentioned. In the windows 7 operating system, there are three types of local connection of devices: public, enterprise network and home (which we actually need). In windows 8, 8.1 and 10, you can create a homegroup with two types of networks: private and home. On first connection, any operating system provides a request to discover devices. You have to agree with him. Then (mainly for windows 8, 8.1 and 10, since little has been said about them):
- Click on the "Network and Sharing Center" icon
- In the item "View active networks" will be the name of the connection and its type
To set the desired type:
- Windows 8, 8.1: you need to open the side menu (press win + i or move the mouse cursor to the right side of the screen), Change computer settings - Network - Connections - connection name, activate search for devices and content.
- Windows 10: Start - Settings - Network and Internet - the name of your connection (in our case, it's wifi), under the list of connections, select Advanced options and make the computer discoverable.
After all this, on devices connected to the wifi router, you need to find the item Manage networks, Homegroup and just click the join button. Then the password written on the sheet is entered and the entire configuration cycle is repeated. If the connection fails, you should try disabling all firewalls and firewalls. Perhaps they are preventing the normal operation of two or more computers. After completing all the settings, you need to reboot the devices connected to local connection. To check the correct operation of the connection between computers or laptops, go to Explorer - Network. There will be a list of all connected devices.
Additionally
- With a relatively large area of housing home connection may work poorly or intermittently due to low power wifi signal. In this case, you can take measures to increase the signal coverage area / rearrange the router itself closer to the central part of the apartment / set up and distribute traffic resources / if a laptop is connected, you can work closer to the access point.
- If desired, as mentioned above, you can connect smartphones to the local network. And both on ios and android. But for this you have to find the best applications for network setup.
- Connected computers are recommended to be called different names for ease of use. It's better to set it up right away.
Conclusion
A home network is a rather useful tool for carrying out work or other activities that somehow require comfort in work, spending the combined resources of several computers. Its setup is not particularly difficult, which pleases. Setting up a local network via wifi will help in the future if you set up a more advanced exchange of not only files, but also a combination of user settings. The router connection also saves the user from unnecessary and inconvenient connection cables. We sincerely hope that this article was helpful.
In this guide, we will take a detailed look at how to create a local network between computers with any of latest versions Windows OS, including Windows 10 and 8, as well as open access to files and folders over a local network.
I note that today, when the Wi-Fi router ( wireless router) is available in almost every apartment, creating a local network does not require additional equipment (since all devices are already connected via a router via cable or Wi-Fi) and will allow you not only to transfer files between computers, but, for example, watch videos and listen to music , stored on the computer's hard drive on a tablet or compatible TV, without first throwing it onto a USB flash drive (this is just one example).
To share access to Windows folder on the local network, right-click on this folder and select "Properties" and go to the "Access" tab, on it click the "Advanced settings" button.
Check the "Share this folder" checkbox, then click "Permissions".
Check the permissions that are required for this folder. If you want to be read-only, you can leave the default values. Apply your settings.
After that, in the folder properties, open the "Security" tab and click the "Edit" button, and in the next window - "Add".
Specify the user (group) name "Everyone" (without quotes), add it, and then set the same permissions that were set the previous time. Save your changes.
Just in case, after all the manipulations done, it makes sense to restart the computer.
Accessing folders on the local network from another computer
This completes the setup: now, from other computers, you can access the folder via the local network - go to "Explorer", open the "Network" item, and then, I think, everything will be obvious - open and do everything with the contents of the folder, what was set in permissions. For more convenient access to a network folder, you can create its shortcut in a convenient place. You may also find it useful: (for example, to play movies from your computer on your TV).
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- Share files between computers on your home network.
- Use printer sharing. For example: you connected a printer to one computer in the local network, and documents can be printed from other computers.
- Play games on local network.
- If you want to play online, then everything should already work. Sometimes, antiviruses block such connections. Therefore, if there are problems when computers do not see each other, then just try for a while disable antivirus.
- To share files, you can use shared folders. Just copy the files for example to the "My Pictures" folder (assuming we shared this folder during setup), and they will be available from all computers on the network. If you want to share your folder on local disk then follow. See after the heading "Setting up file and folder sharing".
- And on setting up printer sharing, I will prepare a separate article.
Update! Since the homegroup was removed in Windows 10 starting with version 1803, this article is no longer relevant. I prepared new instruction on setting up a local network and managing shared folders and files in Windows 10:.
In a previous article, I wrote about setting up a local network on Windows 7. But, since the number of Windows 10 users is growing every day, I decided to prepare instructions for setting up a local network in Windows 10. Following this instruction, you can combine everything into a home local network computers that you have connected to one WiFi router. I will show using the example of setting up a network between a computer on Windows 10 and Windows 7. But, computers on Windows 8, or several computers on Windows 10, can also participate in this network. The instruction is universal, and if you have several ordinary desktop computers and laptops connected to the same router, then you can easily combine them into a local network. And at the same time, it does not matter at all which Windows versions they work (except Windows XP).
After creating a local network, you will be able to:
And all this can be done over the air. If your computers and laptops are connected to the router via WiFi networks. This is how you get it. You can connect some computers via cable, and laptops, for example, via Wi-Fi. Everything will work.
I set up a local network between two computers (stationary PC and laptop). One works on Windows 10, and the second on Windows 7. I set it up through the home group. I think this is the most correct safe way. You can also configure it by disabling password-protected sharing, as I did in the instructions for .
How does LAN work, through homegroup setup? A very important point, since the settings there are a little confusing, the main thing is to understand how everything works, and it will be easier to set it up. So, we create a home group on one of the computers and get a password (I created on Windows 7, it doesn't matter). And all other computers that we want to network, we simply join the homegroup using the password received. That's all. It is this scheme that we will now consider in more detail.
I made a small diagram for clarity (you may have more or fewer computers and you don't have to connect a printer):
Before proceeding with the setup, you must check time and date. Check that the time and date on all computers that will participate in the network are the same.
Creating a Homegroup in Windows 7
If, for example, you have all computers on Windows 10, then we create a home group on one of the computers with "ten", everything is exactly the same there. Or in Windows 8, for example.
Click the internet connection icon on the notification bar with your mouse. Then, select .
There will be our connection to the router (via cable, or Wi-Fi). It is important that it be with the Home network status. If you have a Public Network like mine in the screenshot, then click on this link and select home network.
Close the window with the network location selection. Now, our connection with the status "Home network". Go to section home group.
Click on the button Create a homegroup.
Select the checkboxes for the items you want to share ( shared folders) , and press Further.
Write down or take a photo of the password you get. With this password, we will join other computers to our network.
On this, the creation of the home group is completed. If you go back to Network and Sharing Center - home group, you can remember the password, change it, leave the group, change sharing settings, etc.
That's it, the group has been created. We have a password. Now connect to the homegroup necessary computers in our network.
Setting up a local network in Windows 10: connecting to a homegroup
Let's move on to another computer. Now I will show, using the example of a Windows 10 computer, how to connect to a homegroup to create a home LAN. You can use this scheme to connect not only computers with installed Windows 10, but also with Windows 7 and Windows 8.
Already according to the standard scheme, right-click on the Internet icon, and select Network and Sharing Center. Go to home group.
If you have a message "HomeGroup is not available because you are not connected to your home network.", then click on , and click on the button Yes.
We wait a bit, and we see a message that we can join the home group. Click on the button Join.
A password request will appear. Specify the password that we received when creating the homegroup on another computer. Click Ok.
A message will appear indicating that you have joined a homegroup. Click Ready.
If you open the Network and Sharing Center - Homegroup, you can set up sharing, leave the group, see the password, etc.
Everything, the local network between computers is already working. Open Explorer (This computer), go to the network tab on the left, and see computers on the local network. We can open them and view the folders that are shared. A computer with Windows 10 sees a computer with Windows 7 installed on the network without problems.
In the same way, a Windows 7 computer sees and enters a Windows 10 computer. In this way, you can connect other computers. One condition is that they are connected to your router.
What to do next? How to use the local network?
It all depends on the purpose for which you combined computers into one network.
Here are some tips. I hope the article was useful to you.
