Comments by "John h Palmer" (@johnhpalmer6098) on "How Do I Get My Windows Machines to Network With Each Other?" video.

  1. That has thrown me because it's not intuitive, but it does work when you set it to private.
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  2. When I had more than one PC (Windows), I have tried to network them, often without success. Part of the issue was the very cheap WiFi dongle I had purchased at RE PE in 2012 to network my late mother's old machine to mine, both ran XP and one was, I kept loosing the connection (Mom's PC was cleaned up, a copy of XP reloaded back on as the original install got corrupted and it sat in the living room and I ran it wirelessly via WiFi but the connection was apparently unreliable. Fast forward to last year or the year before, again with the WiFi dongle, tried to network 2 PC's, one being XP (Mom's old PC) and a much newer 4th gen Dell SFF running Win 10, no dice and later found out the dongle had died. Fast forward to this year, 2 Windows 11 machines, one another Dell SFF (8th gen i5) running 11 Pro and a Dell Latitude laptop with 11 Home and it had built in WiFi. I was able to get them talking to each other, get both on the same workgroup, file share one or two folders (namely documents and music), set both to private, et voila, I can zip music files from one to the other, or the whole folder, especially if I decide to add a playlist to Windows Media Player for playback with the stereo via a docking station and digital interface. I also have a joint dongle for a Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse for use at the stereo in the living room. All it took was a bit of Googling for the instructions and I was able to get both talking to each other without too much difficulty.
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