Apologies, my previous post got truncated and corrupted when submitted. Should have continued:
Microsoft seems to have abandoned facilitating networking in a home environment. Come back Homegroup, all is forgiven!
With regard to your next post, I wonder whether you need to invoke the hidden Administrator account to deal with the recalcitrant permissions. I don't remember having to do tnat to sort out sharing, but have had to resort to that to sort out some other issues where I could not take ownership of a folder as a "normal" administrator.
With regard to post by AndrewThomas, that confirmed my preference always to use local accounts and to avoid logging on with a Microsoft account. I have been unable to identify how using a Microsoft account might improve my experience of Windows, and clearly it introduces a new layer of complexity and problems, so after going through the initial setup process which is almost impossible to complete wihout invoking a Microsoft account, I convert the account to a local one, and create any additional account I require from the command line, which is much less hassle than going through tne process in Settings. (My working account is a Standard account, and I create a separate Admin account to deal with tasks where elevated privileges are required.)