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Can't start Peer Name Resolution Protocol
Being somewhat bored I began playing around with Homegroups. I delved into HG awhile back but never really got into it.
To make a long story short I can't start the service 'Peer Name Resolution Protocol' which is required for HG.
There are 3 Peer type services. One is started (Peer Networking Identity Manager). The other one (Peer Networking Grouping) is not because it depends on 'Peer Name Resolution Protocol.'
Both Homegroup services are started and I have IPV6 enabled on my NIC and in the LAN properties. Also the last time I played around with HG it seemed I needed the MS Firewall service started which it is.
The event log has this:
'The Peer Name Resolution Protocol cloud did not start because the creation of the default identity failed with error code: 0x80630801.'
Using the Event ID web search it leads me to this:
Event ID 102 — PNRP Protocol
I tried what they outlined (it's for Vista) but to no avail. I have no idea what the connection is between RSA and P2P.
I do notice I have a lot of entries in "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\MachineKeys"
So....... any ideas? Luckily this isn't a showstopper for me but like most of you here you want things to work the way they're supposed to.