Allow Write Access to Shared Files or Folders Using HomeGroup
Posted By Brent Trahan On July 20, 2009 @ 3:46 pm In Guides, Networking | No Comments
Let’s say you have a desktop computer at home and a laptop that you take to school that are both on the same HomeGroup. You’ve been working on a word document at the desktop computer and now you want to work on it from the laptop in front of the TV.
By default you can view a file shared on another computer in your HomeGroup but you can’t edit or delete it.
This guide shows you how to allow a computer (the laptop in this case) to edit or delete files or folders on another computer in your HomeGroup (the desktop).
How do I edit or delete files or folders shared in my HomeGroup?
- Go to the computer in the HomeGroup that has the file or folder you want to allow other computers in the HomeGroup to edit or delete files.
- Navigate to and select the file or folder you want to allow write access in Windows Explorer.
[1] - Select Share with at the top of Windows Explorer and choose Homegroup (Read/Write).
All computers in the HomeGroup now can read, edit, and delete the file or folder (and files in the folder) on the computer.
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