Unable to access shared folder without user name and password in windows 10

Question

I was able to share a folder in local network without asking for credentials in windows 7 and 8. This we use to do by changing settings in Advanced Network and Sharing settings.

After updating to windows 10 it still asks for the user name and password. Even if I add Guest and Everyone with full controll in the permissions. I am sure I need to enable the Guest account before I can add guest account. For checking I went to user accounts but did not see Guest account but I accessed accounts using cmpmgmt.msc and checked the Guest account there which is enabled (because disable account was unchecked)

Has anything changed in windows 10?

Answer 1

Question is old but none of the answers fully cover the problem. There are a number of ways to accomplish this. There is one that works every time.

1. Press the key to open the Start menu and, without clicking anything, type sharing.
2. At the top should be Manage advanced sharing settings. Click that.
3. Expand the heading for All Networks and find the section called Password protected sharing.
4. Set that to Turn off password protected sharing.
5. Click Save changes.
6. You may need to restart or unshare and reshare for the settings to take effect.

Also make sure that the file permissions of the files and folders being shared also allow access to Everyone. File permissions are managed separately from share permissions and whichever is more restrictive wins.

This should work in Windows 7 through 10 without issue.

Answer 2

There could be many reasons why, but one which keeps hunting me is that Windows automatically tries to log into shared folders using currently sign-in user. If this fails it will not try "fall-back" to Guest.

In my case, my NAS has a user 'papo', but on my PC, I am sign in as papo as well. But I use different passwords for everything (with a formula).
The result is, I can't sign-in to NAS as a Guest without a password from my PC.

Answer 3

Right Click that folder which you want to share and then go to select share with then click For specific people and then add guest and then add it and change the read to read/write . that's all go to their folder by giving IP that's all .. nothing changed in folder sharing in windows 10 OS .

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Answer 4

Would have to ask because it's not mentioned, but can we presume you are connected to homegroup

Another requirement usually is that you'll need to have set a username and password in both the computers