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January 23

File Sharing Questions

I have two Windows 10 computers, a Dell Inspiron desktop and an HP laptop, and a wireless router provided by my cable provider. I have enabled file sharing between the computers, so that I have defined several folders on the desktop as shareable, and am mapping them as virtual drives on the laptop computer. I also have two folders on the laptop computer that I have defined as shareable, and am mapping them as virtual drives on the desktop computer. This normally works well, but I have two questions. Robert McClenon (talk) 06:48, 23 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Permission Error

One folder on my desktop computer is called Letters and has 5985 files in 51 folders and occupies 283 MB. There are 906 documents at the root level of the folder. Some of them were created within the past few days, and some of them date back to the 1990s. However, with the except of some of the most recent documents, if I try to open them on my laptop computer by clicking on them, I get either of two messages saying that I do not have permission to view the file. I can view the V: drive, which is the Letters folder, and can see the documents, but if I try to view the Properties, or to open the file with Notepad, I am told that I do not have permission to view. Is there anything that I can do on the desktop to make these files viewable on the laptop? Robert McClenon (talk) 06:48, 23 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Every file on the desktop should have Security tab in its properties where you can specifies necessary permissions. You can set them to just Everyone. Ruslik_Zero 20:41, 23 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

User:Ruslik0 - Yes. I have spot-checked a few of the files in that folder on my desktop computer, including some of the ones that I tried to access on the laptop computer, and they all have Everyone set. I can view them just fine on the desktop computer. The problem is that, on the laptop computer, I can see them in the directory, but I can't view their permissions or view the files. Robert McClenon (talk) 23:17, 23 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Is there any difference in permissions between files that you can open and those that you cannot? Ruslik_Zero 20:44, 24 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Trust Center Issue

One of the folders on the desktop contains an Access database. (Well, four of them do.) If I open the Access database, which is physically on the desktop computer, from the laptop computer, it tells me that the permissions have changed, and gives me a button to open Trust Center. If I go to Trust Center, I see that what I think I want is to define the folder that is a virtual drive to be a Trusted Location. So I browse through the network and select the virtual drive, which is physically a folder on my desktop computer. If I click OK to try to define it as trusted, I am given an error message saying that that selection is not supported. What can I do to define a virtual drive on one computer as being a trusted location when seen from the other computer? Robert McClenon (talk) 06:48, 23 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]