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Can't get Home groups to work.
As of last week I was able to do the following without problem:
- Print from my two Windows 7 laptops to a a desktop running Win Xp
- Play Starcraft I via UDP with both of said laptops
As of yesterday I've noticed that these things are no longer possible.
I cannot successfully network any of these machines
What I've done to try to get HomeGroups working
- Made sure that each computer had a different Name
- Made sure that each was part of the Home Network
- Neither laptop will find the other when a homegroup is created.
- I have created the home group on both laptops and the other one fails to find it.
- This was all found when trying to plan a LAN game of StarCraft I, which I was able to do with NO problems at all via UDP last week.
- And Starcraft was being hosted on an XP desktop.
- I was also able to print to said XP desktop which has a printer attached.
- I have tried dis-abliing / re-inabling IPv6 to no avail.
- all computers involved have internet access.
Can anyone help me! I am a Mac user at heart but have to live in the darkness out of necessity. This is why I HATE MS!!!
Thanks in advance for any help.
PudgyOne
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February 20th, 2011 09:00
Poemind,
Look at firewalls and virus programs.
Also try reading...
How to Network with HomeGroup in Windows 7
Rick
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March 11th, 2011 13:00
Ok, I've looked at that. No dice.
I think I mentioned that I had them networked just perfectly with absolutely no issues, and then it looks like a wonderful MS update blew through and now they can't see each other at all.
How do I get them to see each other again? Both, actually all three machines can get online and the internet, but they cannot see each other.
What could have changed to cause this? I've turned off firewalls and virus programs to no avail. Plus they were on before and everything was working.
I really want to play Starcraft with my son again via UDP but this has screwed that all up.
Thanks for any help that you can give me.
Mary G
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March 11th, 2011 14:00
You cannot add an XP computer to a Home Group. Only the Win 7 computers can be in the home group but the XP unit can be included in the home network. Recheck your network settings. Open Networking and Sharing Center on the win 7 computer and recheck that you are allowing all your computers to share not just the ones in the home group.
Poemind
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March 13th, 2011 17:00
So can anyone tell me why this stopped working? I had no problem with networking these machines. It was a complete non-issue, and then "poof" - headaches!
Still haven't figured this out yet.