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Can see files in folders shared on Win7 machine, but cannot open them
Four devices are connected to the Ethernet ports of the broadband router provided by my ISP: a Win7 Home Premium PC, a Win10 Pro NB and two Linux media players.
The only problem with respect to file sharing among these devices is that the Win10 Pro NB can see, from File Explorer, the files in the shared folders of the Win7 HP PC, but can not open them, whatever the file type is.
For example, when I click on an MP4 file in a shared folder of the Win7 HP PC, Win10 Pro's "Movie & TV" starts to open it, but fails, popping a message saying there is a 0x80004005 error.
How can I get it fixed? Please help.
This problem does not exist until recently, and seems to occur after a certain Win10 update, but I'm not sure.
Win10 Pro is on version 1709 build 16299.492.