Sharing files on same network between win10 and win11

[jnelsoninjax]

So I have a win10 machine and I am trying to set up file sharing so I can get files from the win11 machine. I, however, can not seem to get it to work. I have 'discovered' both machines on the network, but when I try to connect to the 10 system from 11, it asks for a username/password. I disabled that option on the 10 system, but from what I am reading, 11 requires it? I am really stuck here because everything that I have tried does not seem to work, can someone help me out here?

[Som]

Seems to be a new thing introduced in windows 11 24h2 that won't allow SMB share without password, it's very annoying. 

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsclient/forum/all/for-anyone-who-just-installed-windows-11-24h2-cant/dcd51278-24d6-4af8-9b8d-fd9f250611fb

There's a work around on the above link but you need to have professional version of windows to access gpedit. I've found it to be hit and miss though. 

If it's really necessary you could always go back to 23h2. 

[satukoro]

If you dont want to use samba, you could always set up openssh on the computer you want to pull files off and then use scp or a gui client like winscp to connect between machines.

Something like "scp -r username@MachineNameOrIP:/c/path/to/files/ /path/to/destination"

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Easiest way however if you dont want to set a password on your regularly logged in account is likely going to be to just make a separate user and set a password to use to connect to the w10 computer via lusrmgr.msc. 

Create a user, give it a password, make sure it has at least read permissions to the samba file share you created, and you should be able to connect from the other pc using "w10MachineName\newusername" as the username and the password you created.

[jnelsoninjax]

On 26/02/2025 at 12:32, satukoro said:

If you dont want to use samba, you could always set up openssh on the computer you want to pull files off and then use scp or a gui client like winscp to connect between machines.

Something like "scp -r username@MachineNameOrIP:/c/path/to/files/ /path/to/destination"

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Easiest way however if you dont want to set a password on your regularly logged in account is likely going to be to just make a separate user and set a password to use to connect to the w10 computer via lusrmgr.msc. 

Create a user, give it a password, make sure it has at least read permissions to the samba file share you created, and you should be able to connect from the other pc using "w10MachineName\newusername" as the username and the password you created.

What is Samba? I'm not familiar with that program

[Mindovermaster Global Moderator]

On 26/02/2025 at 20:26, jnelsoninjax said:

What is Samba? I'm not familiar with that program

Samba is an Open Source / Free Software suite that has, since 1992, provided file and print services to all manner of SMB/CIFS clients, including the numerous versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems. Samba is freely available under the GNU General Public License.

The Samba project is a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy.

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Main_Page

[jnelsoninjax]

On 26/02/2025 at 20:39, Mindovermaster said:

Samba is an Open Source / Free Software suite that has, since 1992, provided file and print services to all manner of SMB/CIFS clients, including the numerous versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems. Samba is freely available under the GNU General Public License.

The Samba project is a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy.

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Main_Page

The only thing I see is a .tar.gz which is not for windows, is there a windows version?

[Mindovermaster Global Moderator]

On 26/02/2025 at 22:41, jnelsoninjax said:

The only thing I see is a .tar.gz which is not for windows, is there a windows version?

I think Windows already has this built in, you just have to execute it. Windows has many GUIs that run this.

[goretsky Supervisor]

Hello,

SMB has been built into Windows since Windows NT 3.1.  Samba is an open source implementation of it for other operating systems.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky
 

[Ixion]

On 26/02/2025 at 16:36, jnelsoninjax said:

So I have a win10 machine and I am trying to set up file sharing so I can get files from the win11 machine. I, however, can not seem to get it to work. I have 'discovered' both machines on the network, but when I try to connect to the 10 system from 11, it asks for a username/password. I disabled that option on the 10 system, but from what I am reading, 11 requires it? I am really stuck here because everything that I have tried does not seem to work, can someone help me out here?

Why not add a password and then use that? It's more secure (Microsoft hasn't just changed it for no reason). If you map the connection, you can tell it to cache the credentials so you don't have to keep typing them in each time.

[satukoro]

On 26/02/2025 at 23:41, jnelsoninjax said:

The only thing I see is a .tar.gz which is not for windows, is there a windows version?

Sorry, it's probably bad practice on my part but by samba share i was just referring to the regular windows network shares accessible via file explorer by typing \\nameofpcOrIP\sharename in the url bar.

You can create a network share and manage the permissions therein by right clicking a folder, selecting 'Properties', then selecting the 'Sharing' tab and selecting the "Share..." button. This is where you can add the secondary user you create and give it read access.

[jnelsoninjax]

OK guys, thanks for all the input. I created an account just for sharing on my win10 machine and was able to log in via the 11 system and copy files. My only other question is I set my wife up under family on this system, but when I tried to log in using her credentials it would not accept them. I am assuming that the username/password would be the one that she used for her live account, but it was not accepting the username/password. It really is not a big issue, she is only going to use the 10 system for the webcam since we can not get the webcam to work in 11.

[Circaflex]

On 26/02/2025 at 21:55, Mindovermaster said:

I think Windows already has this built in, you just have to execute it. Windows has many GUIs that run this.

SMB is built into windows, what you linked before is the SAMBA project which was meant to share between Linux and Windows easily.

[Mindovermaster Global Moderator]

On 27/02/2025 at 10:09, Circaflex said:

SMB is built into windows, what you linked before is the SAMBA project which was meant to share between Linux and Windows easily.

I know, but they do the same thing, don't they?

[Ixion]

On 27/02/2025 at 14:58, jnelsoninjax said:

OK guys, thanks for all the input. I created an account just for sharing on my win10 machine and was able to log in via the 11 system and copy files. My only other question is I set my wife up under family on this system, but when I tried to log in using her credentials it would not accept them. I am assuming that the username/password would be the one that she used for her live account, but it was not accepting the username/password. It really is not a big issue, she is only going to use the 10 system for the webcam since we can not get the webcam to work in 11.

You need the domain information as well associated with the live account. I  can't remember exactly how it is formatted off the top of my head.

[jnelsoninjax]

On 27/02/2025 at 12:51, Ixion said:

You need the domain information as well associated with the live account. I  can't remember exactly how it is formatted off the top of my head.

I had that [email protected], but right now it really is not a big deal, just a minor issue like everything else in the Windows world...

[Circaflex]

On 27/02/2025 at 12:22, jnelsoninjax said:

I had that [email protected], but right now it really is not a big deal, just a minor issue like everything else in the Windows world...

try  using the hostname instead of the ip address when connecting and add .local to the end of it; ie \\mycomputername.local\\