hello
In short, if he enters a user/pass thats being used on teh 7 machine, he will then "login" to your 7 pc and see the shares, most likely. You can toggle around with network and sharing center / advanced sharing / Use user/pass to manage shares or allow Homegroup to manage... this should get you across the finish line.
Humm, well I set up my Win7 with my user name but no pw so should he be able to log in using just my admin user name or do I need to create an account for him?
YAY <Gives self pat on the head> I went to that advanced section you mentioned and noticed there was actually a scroll bar on the side so I had missed seeing some options. One was a setting where you could turn off needing acct/pw. Turned that option on and viola could access the drives and the printer without having to do any sort of logging in. Then I just had to download the matching printer driver for vista to the one I have to use in Win7 and printing worked too. Thanks for pointing me to the advanced network settings.
right, but this means that anyone that joins that network has access to your shares and pc without the need to enter anything at all. If you just create a password on your account, this could be a forseeable security problem or a nag, depending on how one wants to see it as. After you setup a password and he enters the information, he can save that information for next time use. Not sure, but vista may have a credential manager like 7, there it holds the "Cert" to allow that pc to "auto login" to the pc/shares in the future.
Humm, well this is a simple home setup of just our 2 computers so I hadn't really worried about it much. I suppose I could setup a pw but I figured since no one else has access to the network we would be okay.
Ok, I´ve tried all suggestions prior in this thread, but with no luck.
I just can't join my homegroup. I´ve got 3 computers with win 7, two 64-bits and one portable with 32-bits.
I get the following error in my log: GetSharingFlags failed. Details: ???
I´ve tried everything, please help me.
Hello. Im new here. Just installed 7 today, and I've getting alot of help here.
Regarding homegroup, have you maked sure that the computers time and date are synchronized exatcly?
That did it for me, although I still have trouble accessing files.
I'm having no luck getting HomeGroup to work running a Win7 Vbox guest under Win7. The two machines are joined but when I click on Homegroup in Explorer it says there are no computers in the HG.
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Finally got both systems seeing each others homegroup but unfortunately they found no files in any of the folders.
Last edited by streetwolf; 29 Jul 2009 at 09:37.
Hi guys,
Just to share, I had the same problem of not being able to join. I realized that my laptop and PC had the same computer name, and changed it to make both unique.
Solved! from "Create..." to "Join..".
Regards
Hi all,
i'm new here, and following you since last months ...
I have a trange problem.
I have 3 pcs, two of them have windows 7 32 bit, and the third 64 bit, all of them RTM.
I have successfully created a homegroup on one of them, wrote down the password to the other 2 installation, and everything works flawlessly.
BUT if i shutdown one of the pcs, it does not rejointo the homegroup automatically ( it only connects to the network, and can see the other two pcs ad all shares correctly ).
this happens on the 3 pcs, when i shut them down.
if i run the troubleshooter, it finds that
the network is not set to 'home', the 'peer' something service is not active, and the homegroup must be refreshed.
i click to solve the problem, and it works again.
i don't like to run the troubleshooter EACH time to be able to rejoin to the homegroup.
Any solution for me ?
and then, still asking myself : the REAL advantages of using homegroup instead of old sharing on the network ?
thank you all !
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