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settings.” The resulting screen offers three expandable sections:

“Private,” “Guest or Public,” and “All Networks.”

2. Make sure “Turn on network discovery” and “Turn on file and
printer sharing” are turned on under Private.

Tip

Under “All Networks,” you can turn on “Turn on sharing so anyone with network
access can read and write files in the Public folders.” That way your Mac friends can
also get at the files in the Public folders of all account holders on this PC.

3. The payoff—now you can access your PC folders. On your Mac,
open any desktop (Finder) window. In the sidebar at left, click
Network (Figure 19-6, top). It’s under the Shared or Locations

heading, depending on your macOS version.

Tip

If you don’t see your Windows computer on your Mac, it may be because the
machines don’t all have the same workgroup name. (A workgroup is a cluster of
networked machines.)

To see what your Windows 10 machine’s Workgroup name is, type workgroup into the
search box; click “Show which workgroups this computer is on.”

On the Mac, open → System Preferences → Network. Click Advanced → WINS,
and make sure the same workgroup name appears in the Workgroup box.

After a moment—it could be a very long moment, like 10 minutes
—the icons of the PCs on your network show up. Proceed as

shown in Figure 19-6.

Once you’ve opened your PC → Users → Personal folder, you’ll
have access to all the stuff in your Windows account, ready to open

and edit as usual.