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Back in the early '2000s we had two home PCs with Windows (98 and 2000/XP), it was a breeze (relatively) to make the two PCs see each other in the LAN, using the legacy workgroup + shared folder/drive letters.

of course security was near nonexistent, but it was home LAN, and convenience trumped all.

Nowadays I have NO idea if I could do a similar setup with Windows 10 without resorting to the cloud

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You can still do that!

Make the PC see each other in the LAN is just a matter of ticking one box. I typically create a folder somewhere and give r/w access to everyone then I proceed to log in with the credentials of the computer then put whatever I want. After I am finished I delete the folder. I think it uses SMB under the hood.

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