Homegroup/Networking access permissions

Hi,

So I have a home network setup.
Yesterday I was still able to access COMP2 files/folders by going to the network tab and selecting it, from COMP1. However, later in the evening I had some network problems and did ipconfig /release , /renew. I also had uninstall some VMware network adapters on COMP1 and now I cannot access any of my computers listed on my network or Homegroup. Whenever I try to access one of them I get an error message saying \\COMPNAME is not accessible. You might not have permissions to use this network resource. However, I am able to use COMP2 to access COMP1 in the same way but it doesn't work from COMP1 to COMP2.

I have restarted my modem, and rejoined my homegroup but it is not fixed yet.

Any insight?

flaverfav said:

Hi,

So I have a home network setup.
Yesterday I was still able to access COMP2 files/folders by going to the network tab and selecting it, from COMP1. However, later in the evening I had some network problems and did ipconfig /release , /renew. I also had uninstall some VMware network adapters on COMP1 and now I cannot access any of my computers listed on my network or Homegroup. Whenever I try to access one of them I get an error message saying \\COMPNAME is not accessible. You might not have permissions to use this network resource. However, I am able to use COMP2 to access COMP1 in the same way but it doesn't work from COMP1 to COMP2.

I have restarted my modem, and rejoined my homegroup but it is not fixed yet.

Any insight?

At this point it's best to leave the old Homegroup on both machines then create a new Homegroup and rejoin from the other machine using the new Homegroup password.

flaverfav said:

Okay, so I have a new problem now.
I took both PCs and removed them from the homegroup. However both computers are stating that they detect a homegroup on my network. But that homegroup has no members in it, so it shouldn't exist right? I can't create a new homegroup but only join. When I tried joining it, I hung there and then got an error message saying I couldn't join it.

EDIT: Actually the reason behind this was my brother's Windows 8 computer. I left the homegroup on his computer too, but it kept popping up on my two windows 7 computers. So, I just created the homegroup on his computer and rebooted both of mine then joined the homegroup I created on his!

btw +1 rep to chev65!

Yes I know what you mean here. Sometimes the Homegroup will prefer to be created on certain machines over others. I have this problem myself but it's easy enough to go with the flow and just create a new Homegroup on the preferred machine and go from there hence my suggestion to leave on all machines and create a new one.

Glad your problem is resolved. :)

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