Windows 7 - Can't share PC with Homegroup

Hi,

For some reason, I'm unable to share one PC with the Homegroup. I can actually join the Homegroup and see the rest of the PCs, it's just that I can't share the PC itself. The problem becomes obvious when I try to check the libraries that I want to share in the Homegroup settings: I might check e.g. "Documents" but when I save an re-open the dialog, "Documents" is again unchecked. In case you were curious: 'normal' network file sharing works fine...

Any ideas?

I'm assuming all your PC's are Windows 7 because homegroups are specific to this OS and for mixed OS e.g. Windows 7 and XP a different arrangement is necessary.... remember also that not all versions of Windows 7 support homegroups I believe (please check as I am not certain about this)

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+1 ...... meaning ?

I support your answer.

All the PCs are using the same version of Windows 7. :P

FYI: Before this problem occured I had another problem with the same PC: when accessing the PC via Homegroup all the libraries were incorrectly shown as empty. In the hope of solving this problem I tried to rejoin it with Homegroup. Unfortunately this left me with the current situation (in which the PC is totally invisible to other PCs).

Hi again, I had a similar problem at first when I was getting all my Windows 7 systems to see each other and join a common homegroup so they could exchange files. One of them flat refused to join and it kept saying.... "IPv6 has to be enabled to join a homegroup" however in the properties of the wireless adapter IPv6 was enabled - there is a fix I had to use to get it to work that I think I got on this forum.

Does this sound like your problem ?

Well, my problem turns out to a be more 'stupid' than that :P I just found out that I have to do "share with home group" for each library. I'd assumed this is done automatically when adding them to the homegroup but apparantly not...

But in short, problem solved!

Yes, your right, you need to tell the homegroup to share folders - no worries, you got it solved......