advanced sharing

I'm hoping that one of you geniuses can stop me from having to take drastic action and reimage my brand new pc......heres the problem. (by the way, I have read, reread and read some more on how to fix it but to no avail.) I have a new PC running Win7 Home Premium. I also have an old laptop...

I had the pleasure of setting up a small network workgroup with 4 windows 7 ultimate pc's and 3 xp professional pc's. 1 of the windows 7 pc's became the server and successfully shares folders to the other windows 7 pc's 24/7. The shares were created with the homegroup option. I used advanced...

Hi Guys, I have a Zensonic Network Media Player which I'm having trouble getting it to see the Windows 7 shares and I believe the problem is with Windows 7. Basically all the Zensonic unit does is look at anything on the network in the same workgroup and then shows any shared drives. I have...

I'm trying to read alot of posts here and while many of the problems are familiar, I'm not seeing my answer so far. I have a new Win 7 PC. I have an existing two XP PC home network. The existing network successfully shares files and a printer. Integrating the new Win 7 PC into my network, I have...

When I right click on a folder and select "Share With", Homegroup does nt show on the drop down menu. The only item that appears is "Advanced Sharing". How do I share folders with the homegroup? Thanx, Randy

Ok, all I want to do is share some files. I can access my documents, pictures, music, and videos just fine using my homegroup. But how do I share other folders? According to the help file: To share other libraries that you've created, follow these steps: Click the Start button Link Removed due...

I have a Win 7/64 7100 and a Win 7/32 7100. My 64 bit platform set up the homeGroup just fine. My 32 bit Dell Dimension 4700 4 GB ram, after some time, displays the error message "Windows Cannot Setup HomeGroup on This Computer" I ran the networking troubleshooter and the HomeGroup...

Hi, I've seen other similar threads which have been resolved but my problem differs slightly. The problem started when I was trying to share files with an XP machine, however I'm not sure what the exact cause was. What changed before the problem: I played around in HomeGroup and advanced...

hi guys, I'm having some issues with sharing folders under windows 7. But let me first say that I use the german version of windows so my terminiology may not always be right (not to mention my english ;-)) ... I hope you get it nonetheless. So I'm describing the steps I did (numerous times -_-)...

okay windows lovers, this is how i got windows 7 to accept incoming connections from XP so you can view files on the W7 computer from the windows XP computer: THIS IS AFTER YOU HAVE SHARED THE FOLDERS AND FILES OF YOUR CHOICE! 1. unjoin any "homegroups." 2. make sure your connection is...