How to Fix the Network Error “ Windows Cannot Access \\ Computer Name ”?

Network Error “ Windows Cannot Access Error Fix

ERROR:Network errorWindows cannot access \\ Computer NameYou do not have permission to access \\ Computer Name contact your network administrator to request access.

If you having a problem with your Local Area Network (LAN)? Does your computer won’t able to open the shared folder, files and drive on the network place? Does it ask for permission? So, now its time to doesn’t worry about it because in this tutorial I’m gonna show you how you can give your computer a permission to read and write the files and folder on the shared drive on your computer’s network place.

Actually Network Access Denied due to permission problem is only occurs when you do the LAN networking or sharing without completes the sharing permission setting.

In this tutorial now I’m gonna show you how to give permission to everyone to read and write the particular drive or folder.  If you want to give permission to your entire shared folder and drives then you’ll just need to repeat these steps what I’m shows you and edit the same configuration to all another drive sharing setting.

Step 1 – Give permission to everyone 

• Right click on the drive what you want to share.
• Open the “sharing” tab and click on advance sharing.
• Mark the tick on the “Share this folder”.
• Now click on the “Permission”.

• Now give everyone the full permission.

Step 2 – Add the “Everyone” username in the security to access that shared drive.

• Go to the security tab and click on edit.
• Click on “add”.
• Now click on advanced to find the “everyone”.

• Click on find now to find all the users.
• Now find the “Everyone” user, select it and click ok.

• Now you’ve seen the user name “Everyone” is shown in the user and group setting. Just click “ok” to add this user.

Step 3 – Allow full permission to “Everyone” user to access the dive sharing completely. 

• Click on “everyone”.
• Now tick on the full control and then click on “Apply”.

After that you will see the windows security pop-up windows opens up and applying setting to all your files and folder, just watch it don’t click on cancel until it completes.

Now you can able to read and write the files on that drive after this configuration and you can see the difference below:

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