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Win7 Homegroups - How do I use them
I have a desktop and a laptop, both with Win7 Home Premium. According to what I've been able to find, Homegroups is installed when I set up Windows, and select Home, but unless I have Pro, I can't create them. Most of what I've found tells about creating them, so those don't answer my questions. Both computers show that they are a member of the Workgroup named WORKGRPOUPS, but I see nothing about homegroups.
My question is, how do I actually access files on one or the other computer from either of them? Currently, I have a server running Linux Apache so when I need to access a file on one computer from the other, I copy it to the server and get it from there...a bother, but OK in a pinch. Also, one printer is connected by cable to my LAN and the other by USB cable to the desktop. I'd like to access the second from the laptop, but don't know if that's a function of Homegroups, or needs some kind of virtual desktop app.
I must be missing something. Surely, Homegroups was meant to be intuitively usable by non-experts, so with a moderate computer literacy, what am I missing?
Thanks!
Optiker