File sharing problem

[Zassinus]

Simple problem here. I wanted to use the windows intergrated solution to share movies and documents on my home network. When i try to set it up, both sides say that there are no networks and if i want to create one. 

 

Both pcs are win 10 64bit 

[paddy-stone]

20 minutes ago, Zassinus said:

Simple problem here. I wanted to use the windows intergrated solution to share movies and documents on my home network. When i try to set it up, both sides say that there are no networks and if i want to create one. 

 

Both pcs are win 10 64bit 

What are the steps you took to "set it up"?

[Zassinus]

1 hour ago, paddy-stone said:

What are the steps you took to "set it up"?

Iopened the home network or whatever it is in english, it scanned for existing ones, found none and then offered me to set one up. It gave me a password and i chose what i want to share. ( videos, document, printers etc. ) When i go to join on the other pc it finds no other networks and also offers me to set one up...

[Akolyte]

50 minutes ago, Zassinus said:

Iopened the home network or whatever it is in english, it scanned for existing ones, found none and then offered me to set one up. It gave me a password and i chose what i want to share. ( videos, document, printers etc. ) When i go to join on the other pc it finds no other networks and also offers me to set one up...

I assume you mean a homegroup?  To create a homegroup you should set all your computer's network location to home in your LAN.  Windows 10 I believe automatically sets the network location to public, you can go to network in file explorer, it will scan for network clients, and a yellow bar will popup, you can click on this and choose to set the network location to home.

 

After that you can go to Control Panel > Network > Homegroup.  Here it should find homegroups in your network, and ask for a password. I'm not 100% sure but I wouldn't be surprised if different versions of Windows might have trouble all connecting into the same Homegroup.

[paddy-stone]

If you're on the same home network, just add a new user on PC1 with the same credentials as the PC2 user. Then right click the folder/file you want to share and select [give access to] and select that users name.