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I'm trying to do file sharing "the old style" between two computers in my network.

I'm trying to do "Start -> Run", type in \hostname\c$ or \IPAddress\c$, log in with the user and password, and access the share.

I don't want to set specific permissions when sharing specific folders. Simply going into c$ with an admin user, which gives me access to everything.

This was working perfectly fine until I had to reinstall one of them and now it doesn't work anymore.

  • Once computer is Windows 7 Ultimate, the other is Windows 8.1
  • In both "Sharing Wizard" is turned off.
  • In both, Firewall is off
  • Both are outside a homegroup.
  • In both, the username I'm using is the main user of the computer, who happens to be an administrator. It has the same password in both.
  • I've tried entering the username as either just the username, or "othercomputer\username" (this wasn't necessary before). It still doesn't work.

Every single time I need to get this to work it's a matter of trial and error until it happens to work and I never know why.

Could you give me the list of things that I need to make sure are set in a certain way for this to work?

Thank you

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try the net use command net use [devicename|*] [\computername\sharename] *

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  • I get: "System error 5 has occurred." "Access is denied." Sep 29, 2014 at 17:55
  • Look at the security for sharing - make sure you have something where Local users authenticate as themselves (instead of as guest)
    – codecats
    Sep 30, 2014 at 15:22

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