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I'm new to Windows 10 and have troubles finding a way to set one of my Ethernet connections (I only have one active currently) a private connection. This is simply a connection that connects to one of my subnets that is not connected to the internet, has a static IP and does not have a gateway (gateway field in TCP/IP settings is not filled).
How do I make this connection a private connection to allow files and folders sharing? It would seem the only workaround is to give it an invalid gateway to force Windows 10 to bring up the flyout that allows you to choose if you want to make the PC "discoverable" over that connection. So why am I not allowed to set the connection as private when it doesn't have a gateway?
Zach Saw
Posted 2015-08-17T03:05:37.047
Reputation: 191
in my windows server 2016, which acts like a router, Internal Network is called "Unindentified Network", and External network is called just "Network". But thanks, that did the trick! – xakepp35 – 2017-08-16T11:02:36.900
Two issues: (1) this policy will apply to ALL unidentified networks, not just the one you want to change. So if you set "unidentified network" to private, and then go connect to another unidentified network somewhere else, it will also come up private. This is probably not what you want.
(2) secpol.msc is not available in Windows 10 Home. – Ivan McA – 2019-12-11T06:38:40.343