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.