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Win11 will not retain set Sharing settings

I have been trying to get my desktop to share specific folders, and it has worked before with Windows 10, but not so far with Windows 11 unfortunately. I have my network set to Private, and in Advanced Sharing settings I have both network discovery and File and Printer sharing set to On. But when I exit out of Settings and go back in to verify those toggles are still active, they both show as Off. So it seems like Windows 11 is not retaining the file sharing settings for some reason. It behaves the same way under the Public networks drop down as well. The only toggles that stay are under all Networks, but that does help me much. I have my specific folders are ready to be shared, but my other computers cannot see this one on the network at all. I know they work because I have other machines that share without a problem, but none of them are Win11, all are either Win10 or Windows Server. What can I do to get this working?
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