Hi. I wonder if anyone has any ideas on this little problem. I posted about it on the Windows 10 forum some months back, but ideas dried up. In any case, now I think about it, it is probably more to do with Windows 7 than 10...

I have two PCs both running Windows 7 Home 64-bit. They are on a home network alongside a laptop running Windows 10 Home. I want all three to see each other and share files..

The Win10 laptop will see and read/write files from shared folders on both Win7 PCs, so that's fine. One of the Win7 PCs will do the same, read/write/copy folders and files from either the other Win7 PC or the Win10 laptop.

The second PC however will access the other Win7 PC, but if I try to connect to the Win10 laptop it brings up a user name & password window. Seems to me therefore that the issue is with that PC, not with the laptop, since the other Win7 PC has no such problem. As far as I know I have no password on the laptop - I am asked for a PIN number when I start it up, but that isn't, presumably, what the 'awkward' PC is looking for?

The real point is how come one Win7 PC connects directly to the laptop with no password box, and the other will not? How would I get PC2 to do as PC1 does, and just connect? In practice, I can always swap files between PC2 and the laptop using the laptop of course, but it'd be good to have it working the other way round as well.

Thank you.

Martin