

Make sure the user accounts on the home PC have passwords. If you have a home network and a PC that’s a member of a domain (for example, if you bring home a work laptop), you can open files and folders that are on your home PCs using your work laptop, but not the other way around. When you open items on your home PCs, you might need to enter the user name as home pc name\ user name and then provide the password.

To open items on your home PCs, make sure the user accounts on your home PCs have passwords. If you need to share a location such as a drive or system folder, use the Advanced security option.īecause your PC is a member of a domain, you can open files and folders that are on your home PCs, but you can't open items that are on this PC from your home network. When your PC is connected to the domain, you can also use this option to search for other people on the network. To select other people who have accounts on your PC or in your homegroup, choose the Specific people option. (If you're using a mouse, point to the upper-right corner of the screen, move the mouse pointer down, click Settings, and then click Change PC settings.) Then tap or click HomeGroup. To select libraries to share with all the members of your homegroup, swipe in from the right edge of the screen, tap Settings, and then tap Change PC settings. To share with all the members of your homegroup, choose one of the Homegroup options. To share a file or folder with a particular person, choose that person's account. There are different Share with options depending on whether your PC is connected to a network and what kind of network it is. Choose an option in the Share with group.
