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Can't Share Users Files After Leaving Homegroup
Hello all,
I have been scratching my head for a few days on this and I'm tapped out and need help.
So here's the setup. File sharing was originally working fine (using traditional method). Then I thought I would try Homegroups. That turned out to not work for me because of many reasons, but the main one was Linux/samba access stopped working. So I thought I could simply leave the Homegroup on all of the PC's and go back to legacy file sharing but I have not gotten that to work.
I need to be able to see \\<host>\\Users\<username> (for only one username, I understand user A cannot see user B's files) across all of the PC's, but it's not working. One footnote: It only works for Administrator, and Public is also visible by all users. But the users cannot access their individual data on remote machines (Users dir). The exact error is not very helpful (Windows cannot access, check spelling).
Here's some highlights of what I've seen, what I've tried, and more details about my setup that might be helpful in this troubleshooting:
- All PC's are Win7 Pro SP1 64 bit (not counting samba machines)
- Firewall is disabled and not an issue
- In general the firewall is not an issue because Administrator can see their files, and Public works for everyone
- Disabled Homegroup services (Homegroup Provider and Homegroup Listener) - services were stopped and set to "Disable" permanently - rebooted after change
- The users within my network are either members of Users or Power Users, intentionally not members of Administrators group
- No DC - This is strictly a workgroup setup - workgroup names match across all PC's
- "Use Sharing Wizard" is checked in Windows Explorer -> Organize -> Folder and Search Options -> View
- Network type is "Home" in Control Panel -> Network and Sharing Center
- Network advanced property settings (Control Panel -> Network and Sharing Center -> Change advanced sharing settings:
- Home or Work
- Turn on network discovery
- Turn on file and printer sharing
- Turn on sharing so anyone with network access can read and write files in the Public folders
- Media streaming is off (not sure what happened here - it was on yesterday and I did not change it)
- Use 128-bit encryption to help protect file sharing connections (recommended)
- Turn off password protected sharing
- Allow Windows to manage
- Tried "Use user accounts and passwords..." as well, did not work
Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated. I've hit a wall. Thanks so much!