Sharing a hard drive partition over LAN on Windows 10

[Rangan Das]

The lab at my university has four systems, all running on Windows 10 (1809) and is connected to the internet via a D-Link DIR 816 router that has DHCP enabled. One of the four systems are connected to it over 2.4GHz Wi-Fi, the rest is connected using ethernet cables.

Now, how do I share the partition D of each system with every other system using LAN? I want the partitions to be accessible over the network without needing any username or password.

From control panel, I have turned off password protected sharing.



Moreover, I have also shared drive D with everyone. I can access the public documents, but not the shared drive.



However, I still cannot access the drive from the network. I can see the remote PC over the network, I open the remote PC, I see the drive shared. When I try to open it, it shows that I do not have the permissions.

 

[SgtScream]

If your computers aren't joined to domain, i'd just set up a homegroup:
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-setup-and-manage-windows-10-homegroup-local-network

 

[Rangan Das]

If your computers aren't joined to domain, i'd just set up a homegroup:
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-setup-and-manage-windows-10-homegroup-local-network

The October Update does not have the homegroup.

 

[SgtScream]

Do you get an error message?

 

[Alabalcho]

Depending on your usage scenario: Either use same user name / password on all computers, or on the computer hosting the shared folder, create users/passwords matching the other computers, and give these users access to both the share, and the folder.