Cannot gain permission to access a network device after a new computer installed

[Manny Neff]

I have a 9-year old HP Pavilion Windows 10 Pro 64 computer which was running on a peer to peer network with a second virtually identical machine. The motherboard on the second machine failed, and I just purchased a brand new HP Envy Windows Home 64 computer in its place. Both computers show the two machines on the Network, and the new Envy machine can access the drive and printers on the older Pavilion machine. But the reverse is not true. I can see the drive on the new Envy machine from the older Pavilion machine, but every time I click on the desired drive (i.e., which is Shared) I get t

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