Setting up homegroup

[otuatail]

Hi. I have 2 PCs set up as a home group using wi-fi. Problem is I needed to format PC 'A'.

How do I set it up on a home group to connect to PC 'B'? Is there a way of getting PC 'B' to reveal its home group ID a large alpha numeric number?

Thanks.

Will still need to set up PC 'A' to work with a home group and enter the home group ID.

 

[samuria]

It's simpler to just use workgroup as that is active by default and less hassle than homegroup

 

[otuatail]

Sorry meant workgroup

Confused. This is 2 computers at home on a private network. What is the problem with Home group?

 

[otuatail]

This is getting worse
In my computer (left side) I have

Network
> PC2 Share
> DESMOND1
> DESMOND1

How do I remove all of these and start fresh????

 

[samuria]

Full details https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2008-R2-and-2008/cc753475(v=ws.11)

 

[otuatail]

Massive web page ERROR 404
Error - Sorry this document can't be found.

Thanks.

 

[otuatail]

well is
samuria

going to reply?

 

[samuria]

We are all volunteers on here and we have a home life How To Add, Remove and Manage Windows Shares Network Drives From Command Line - Poftut

 

[otuatail]

Dos is not my thing. Will wait till another day of the week when someone can help.

I had a look on the internet and it said you need to have a home group to use a work group. You said NO don't use home group.

Setting up home group asks for a name. computers don't have names and I cant say share with John, George, Paul or Ringo. There are no names and asked to share with a website domain is stupid.

 

[samuria]

If you cant use cmd prompt then you can do this How to Stop Sharing a Folder in Windows 7 and Windows Vista - dummies

workgroup is active by default you dont have to set anything up apart from shares and ntfs permissions

 

[JoWazzoo]

Dos is not my thing. Will wait till another day of the week when someone can help.

I had a look on the internet and it said you need to have a home group to use a work group. You said NO don't use home group.

Setting up home group asks for a name. computers don't have names and I cant say share with John, George, Paul or Ringo. There are no names and asked to share with a website domain is stupid.

Homegroup SUCKS!!!!! I wasted nearly 2 weeks trying to get it to work. You do NOT need to set up a Homegroup to use Workgroup.

Computers DO have names. Try a Google search.

 

[otuatail]

So a idiot like me cant plug 2 computers together and get them to share files. AMAZING. Here is me thinking Microsoft made things easy for the likes of me.

Have discovered that I can connect to another

Start menu > Right click on computer > change settings.