It’s not an issue with accessing it from another computer: when you think about it all web servers are another computer. The user PHP runs as on the computer hosting the site needs to have write permission to the directory that WordPress is in (and all subdirectories). Exactly how to achieve that depends on a number of factors: what the operating system is, how PHP is running (Apache module vs FCGI or PHP-FPM).
If you just want to set up a local development copy of WP on your own without troubleshooting the existing environment, LocalWP is a good tool. It also integrates with WP Engine hosting.
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