Thanks Trinidad for reply, sorry for the confusion regarding the dual boot of my laptop, I just wanted to let you know how the laptop was configured, but my issue on the laptop is with linux lite and it has nothing to do with windows 8.1 on it. OK, what I want is to be able to see and access my "Linux_lite" folder on my other pc that runs Windows 8.1. I have configured this folder using the instructions in the linux lite manual about five times that is, I have deleted linux lite and done a fresh install of linux lite on my laptop, but I can't access the folder on my other pc on the LAN, but the shared folders of that pc that has windows 8.1 I access them most well on my linux laptop, I included a couple of screenshots of my Windows pc trying to access the folder.