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Yes, Ive been fighting with the same issues for over a week now. I did at one stage manage to a get shared internet connection with my other 3 home computers. (1.running xpsp3 2.running xpsp3 3.running ubuntu 8 4. running Win7(host)) although I was not able to greate a sharing network with any of them the internet worked fine. Now that I fixed it so they all talk to each other, I can no longer share the internet connection. (wierd)
Hear is what i did so far to get home network talking.
My host laptop is using win 7, and two xpsp3 machines are laptops also (Im not using wireless though) and my PC is using Linux Ubuntu 8. All feed through a Linksys router BEFW11S4
Changed all computer Workgroups/Homegroup to the same name. (not needed in Ubuntu) In win xp, Set up a home network on all and select "this computer connects through other computers internet connection" and select "share folders" etc.
Check that all TCP/IP's on all amchines are set to automaticly detect. For some reason win 7 was using some settigns it picked up.
Next, there is also no sharing tab on the "local area network connection properties" window, and until I added this and ticked share, would the network find all other computers.( I had to enable the wireless network on my Win7 laptop becasue unless there are two available network connections there, then the tab is not there either) As soon as that was done and I set this to auto detect in 4vtcp/ip, then could find all the other machines.
All computers are using standard LAN cables into the router (none are using cross link cables however when i did use the cross link lan cable from the hoste win7 machine the first time, I could get itnernet sharing, but not network sharing)
Now i am still stuck on two things. Getting all the share the internet from my win 7 machine and although I can see the home groups it keeps saying I havent joined a home group..
Ill keep you posted... ( PS. MS need a good kick on this. my Ubuntu found all the networks without doing anything. As far back as I can remeber, Win 95 - Vista, setting up home networks on MS OS's has always been a real head ache, and Win 7 isnt any better or probably worse)