Windows 11 File Sharing on Home Network With Win 10 , & and Older Devices

Hello Reema,

Sadly those fixes didn't solve the issue.  In all my hunting for solutions and reading I had already read about SMB and as part of those efforts I had switched on SMB1.0 and verified that I had the settings as suggested.  Truth be told, that solution was only recommended as a 'Temporary solution' as it opens other risks that the KB update allegedly fixed whilst causing havoc for others, mostly I am guessing home users with mixed hardware networks.

I had already found I could Map a drive by using \\devname-driveorfolder\ in file explorer but that wasn't a thing I wanted to do over the lost flexibility of navigating the network.

I think my solution will be to try and source a Windows 10 Pro licence and just bin the Windows 11 stuff as its just more bother than it is worth.  MS did once say that Win 10 was going to be the last Windows and I think for me it will have been because I will never come back for more rubbish like Windows 11 has been,

Thank you for your kind suggestions.

QueenOfKeysReema. 

Thank you for the offer of ideas.  Is it just an SMB thing or is it more than that? I have looked at user SID details on machines using command line who is and they aren't duplicated and its not like the pc ssd was cloned so that id's were replicated across machines on my home network.  Forgive me but I am getting too old for dealing with hassles like this.   

I don't think MS or any of these big corps really think of the impact and hassle.  It was an old addage that got quoted so many times that '80% is good enough' in work, quality or what ever it drove me nuts then when some said it and it still does, it the harbinger of shoddy everything.

If you have ideas I'll gladly take a look and be appreciative of your aid.