more homegroup issues

visy199 · 11 Aug 2009

benstevensuk said:

everything is shared, and i mean everything.

they network, they are visible, everything is enabled in services menus, i can access through the network from all computers.

it is just that the homegroup wont setup. i've tried leaving and starting from scratch, along with having to reset user access to hard drives everytime you do that (that was a worry at first), but i cant seem to get them to do the home group thing. strange

All machines have Windows 7?

benstevensuk · 12 Aug 2009

yep, win 7 on both. very strange

chev65 · 12 Aug 2009

I heard that the system time on the homegroup computers needs to be perfectly in sync for it to work correctly. Other than that I would try a reinstall on the system that it isn't working on.

benstevensuk · 13 Aug 2009

both clocks working in sync. i could re-install. that might be worth a try.

mfo · 13 Aug 2009

had a similar problem in early win7 betas; turned out that if either machine had ipv6 disabled homegroup did not register. might that be your problem?

benstevensuk · 14 Aug 2009

what's ipv6? cheers

Zidane24 · 14 Aug 2009

benstevensuk said:

what's ipv6? cheers

Internet Protocol Version 6...most of the world uses Version 4. It assigns your computer an IP address

Hardly any Internet Providers provide IPv6 so usually it is better to uncheck it to make sure there are apps not trying to get an IP from that protocol defaultly