File Sharing - Problem Copying Files With File Explorer  

Mine worked fine yesterday and today (to my surprise), and no problem about using the shared folders- no need for sub-folders in my case. I did notice the same PC listed twice under Networking in one dialogue box I'd not used before.

I have never had the issue, drag and drop or copy paste work between computer on my network, I generally download windows updates to one of my computer the copy to the install folder on my other computers. I have a folder on each computer Windows updates I download each from Windows catalog don't trust the standard update process and prefer to manually run these update in my own time. I Have drag and dropped but usually copy Paste since its one less action to get each WU on each computer one copy and paste to the other three. I guess you might call my Windows Update folder sub folder to Drive Folder IE E:\Window Updates Perhaps I'm not understanding your issue or your having a local issue still? My Shares are set up to Share entire drives with the exception of C: My OS Drives only share certain folders.

I did mention that occasionally my 24-7 computers I will have to restart the Function services. They will show as running however restarting them my shares on them show up again. this is kind of a hassle that I don't remember having with W7 or W8 This has only started after MS decided that SMB 1 was not secure and there updates unchecked the feature for me. That was awhile back. there were several thread here while we all figured that out.

nikki605 said:

I am talking about using drag/drop within file Explorer to copy data (Excel, Word, PDF, etc) files between PCs. I let Windows Update run independently on each machine.

I was only using those files as an example since this is something I do all the time. What the files are shouldn't make any difference.

@nikki605

Have you actually tried doing what @Clintlgm suggests:
Function Discovery Provider Host Stops running

Services
Function Discovery Provider Host
Function Discovery Resource Publication
Both or one not really sure seem to stop working after a period of time, requiring me to manually restart them

- and even try stopping and restarting them?

I'm waiting for a time when I find I have sharing/networking problems again.. If this proves a suitable fudge, a script to do that could be useful- but that surely shouldn't be necessary.

The folders I use for exchanging data I simply set up as shared. I use the same live id on both PCs - 1 Wifi, 1 ethernet.

Share Files and Folders Over a Network in Windows 10
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