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mknabster
Jan 05, 2026Copper Contributor
Win11 will not retain set Sharing settings
I have been trying to get my desktop to share specific folders, and it has worked before with Windows 10, but not so far with Windows 11 unfortunately. I have my network set to Private, and in Advanc...
mknabster
Jan 07, 2026Copper Contributor
Yea I did use the command line to set them but it keeps getting blocked. One thing i did try was to turn off Windows Firewall completely as a test, then found that the settings would stay toggled on with the firewall off. So it looks like the default firewall settings block file sharing now, where would be the best place to fix that within the firewall?