Nov 07, 2016 Windows 10 1) Hit the windows key, and start typing 'Edit Group Policy' and select it in search results. (Also, typing just 'group' or 'local' works.) 2) Go to: Computer Configuration Administrative Templates Network Lanman Workstation. 3) Open 'Enable insecure guest logons'. Go to Network and Sharing Center from the control panel. Click change adaptor settings on the left hand side. Right click the network adaptor (if you have more than one you may need to do this on all of them). Select 'Properties' from the list.
The Windows cannot access network drive or shared folder error usually show up with the descriptions – “ Network error – Check the spelling of the name. Otherwise, there might be a problem with your network.
To try to identify and resolve network problems, click Diagnose.” Or “You do not have permission to access network computer, shared folder, network drive, or printer”.The error could be due to improper network setup between your Windows computer or incorrect folder or printer sharing settings. Most of the time it’s due to incorrect sharing permission settings and/or invalid username password for the user account on that particular shared network computer.Fix: Windows Cannot Access Network Drive, Shared Folder or Network Computer in Windows 10As mentioned earlier, the issue can be caused by many reasons and there is no way to know the exact cause of why the “Windows cannot access network shared folder, drive or computer” is occurring in your computer.
Since the error directly relates to permission settings in your homegroup network, resetting and changing the sharing permission to allow the specific users to access to the computer, folder, drive or printer may help fixing the problem. In most cases, doing this should solve the issue.Update: If you can’t see the homegroup or the network computers at all from the network shared folder, it’s due to a recent Windows 10 update that completely remove the homegroup feature from its system. For more info, read –. If that’s the case, you may need to re-share your network folder, drive or printer in order to get around the Windows cannot access network shared folder, network drive, network computer or printer error in Windows 10. Re-configuring your network sharing permissionsOur objective here is to grant permission to the users of which you’re accessing to the network shared folder, drive, computer or printer from. To ease things up, we will set to share the folder to the user called “Everyone” in Windows 10.
Follow the steps below to do so.Please do this only in your home network where the computers and users you’re going to share with can be trusted and that you have full control over it. Under Security tab, click on the Add button. In the select users or groups window, click Advanced.In the next window, click on the Find Now button to find all users ever created in your Windows system.From the list of users, look for a user called Everyone.
Select it and click OK. Back to the select users or groups window, you should be seeing the Everyone user listed under Enter the object names to select.Click OK to continue. Next, under security tab, highlight the Everyone user.
Enable all check-boxes under Allow for full control, modify and all others to grant full permissions for the Everyone user to use this folder, drive or printer. Click Apply, then OK.This is the correct way to share a folder, drive or printer to your network computers.
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Retry accessing to the folder again from your network computer. This should solve the Windows cannot access network shared folder, network drive, network computer or printer error in Windows 10.