Network file sharing not working between Windows 11 & Windows 10

Anonymous
2022-01-12T16:32:28+00:00

Hello, we have an office where there are several Desks, recently one of the employees upgraded their computers from windows 10 to windows 11, we had all of the computers set up for Local file sharing over the network, now for some reason since the upgrade, the Win11 PC can still see all the other Win10 PC's but none of the Win10 PC's can see or access the Win11 PC, we checked all the settings, and nothings changes, SMB is enabled on all PC's, and running same IP address's, file sharing in the network sharing center is still all turned on.

Any idea what caused this?

Thanks

Windows for business | Windows Server | Networking | Network connectivity and file sharing

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-10-08T15:46:47+00:00

    Doesn't work for me - I don't use Windows Hello or PIN. All accounts are local.

    On Accounts > Sign-in Options for the Windows Hello options are "currently unavailable". Under Additional settings the first box is "For improved security only allow Windows Hello..." but it is greyed out. It shows as "on" and I cannot activate it to turn it off. Could this be part of the problem? Is there another way to turn off this setting?

    My work around is to use my NAS with shared folders. Copy file from WIN 11 PC to NAS and then get on the target PC and copy file from NAS. Slightly better than the old "sneaker net" of using USB sticks from my early days.

    I have two WIN 11's one desktop and one laptop. None of my WIN 10's can see either of them and neither of them can see each other. The WIN 11's can see the WIN 10's and the WIN 10's can see each other. While I appreciate all the newer emphasis on security, Microsoft needs to fix it so a non-technical home network user can make this work without resorting to something like a NAS.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-10-08T04:00:07+00:00

    this is precisely where I'm stuck
    my earlier suggestion worked on my previous machine
    but I had to replace that pc with an identical one thanks to warranty, and my suggestion doesn't work anymore
    so I'm just as stuck as everyone else
    I'm at the point of baffled by this weird 'can see the drives on my Win 10 machine from my Win 11 machine, but not the other way around' issue
    I really hope someone finds a working workaround for this
    it's been going on for quite too long :/

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-10-08T01:13:04+00:00

    Open Settings > Accounts > Sign-In Options

    Additional Settings > TURN OFF "For improved security, only allow Windows Hello sign-in for Microsoft accounts on this device"

    I wanted to test this and started on my WIN10 PC but I got stuck here: no Additional Settings found on the Sign-In Options page! Any clues?

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-09-12T18:08:34+00:00

    I have ran into the same issue. I have 2 Win11's and several Win10's. The Win 11's will not allow a shared folder to be used by my Kyocera CS, nor my Win 10's. But, the Win 11's can access Win 10's shared folders. I had to do a work around for the Win 11's by creating a shared folder on a Win 10, then have the Win 11 access it for the scans folder. SMB is turned on, firewall allows the exceptions, and a dummy account was created just for sharing. No success.

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