Homegroup Problem

Ok...I'm getting somewhere....

My Desktop connects via CABLE to a wireless access point which is also connected via cable to a router.

The laptop connects wirelessly to the acces point and so on.

Now, my desktop's Home Network is named after the ROUTER name, e.g. LINKSYS-DSL but the laptop's home network is named after the access point's SSID!!! (e.g. LINKSYS-WIRELESS). So it seems they belong to different home networks (or workgroups, as they used to be called)

The problem is , that my desktop is connected on both access point and router..but I don't know how it gets the network name by the router's name/ssid. I never saw that before. Where does it find the SSID from, if it's connected via cable? :P How can I put them in the same home network??!!! I'll forget all I know about networking...

It is present in the liste with IPv4 etc... but it sys "not active"

cOLDiNSIDE said:

SOB... After re-enabling IPv6, I can now create a home group. That doesn't make sense, but it fixed the issue at hand. Thanks!

I have had similar problems, trying to "see" the homegroup on my main computer from my laptop. Have gone through all the hoops suggested by others. Eventually solved, based on the solution fopm Linzo above. My problem was that both my main and laptop computers had the same name, in my case "Dave-PC", but found when I changed my laptop computers name to "Laptop [right click on computer and go to properties, then where you see your Windows Experience index, and you can click change settings], I could now "see" and join the homegroup.

Hope this might work for others with the same problem

Changing computer names worked for me. Seems each computer must have a unique name. I battled this for hours using some of the tips here to no avail, then noticed the names were identical. I changed the desktop name (which was the creator of the homegroup if that matters), and it worked. My notebook could finally see the homegroup and offered to join, no problems.

My dad had named both computers STAN-PC. I noticed that early on but on the desktop it was shown as lower case in the Windows System Info screen, while on the notebook it was all caps. But despite what was displayed on the screen both are really stored as caps, that is, computer names are not case sensitive. I noticed this when we mapped the network with our security software and it reported both computers in upper case.

Try unique computer names.