workgroup

I have scoured the message forums, but haven't found any suggestions that will fix my problem with networking a Windows 7 computer. The problem: My Windows Vista computer can see the entire rest of the network: Tvs wired by LAN, as well as a wired printer and a wifi printer. My Windows 7...

Hi, I am trying to fix a problem with a machine on a small office network. There are about five machines on this network, all set to DHCP and all are members of the workgroup WORKGROUP. One machine (RECPETIONIST) has some shares on it for all other machines to access. All machines except one...

I have 2 computers running Windows 7, my home pc and a HTPC I have built. Both are connect to my homegroup. Both are set to workgroup. Both have the advance sharing features set with no password sharing. Attached to the HTPC via usb is an external 2TB drive with media on it. I want to...

In my network and sharing centre i have my one, active, work network. against it are show TWO connections to the network with a LAN cable and a wireless connection. this is correct. On another very similar machine whihc points to the same workgroup the two conenctions are each shown as a...

Other libraries show up but I get a "see administrator (that's me) error" when I try to access them. All passwords are turned off and sharing turned on. Directories flagged "share with Homegroup" behave the same way. All four computers (3 Win8 Pro and 1 Win7 Home) have the same workgroup name...

I've been going in circles on this for a while now and have yet to fix the issue. Computer A is acting a a file server. It has two external hard drives plugged into it. These drives contain music, movies, photos, etc. I share each media folder by right-clicking it and going Share With ->...

I connect to net through a pen drive dongle. All settings are automatically created by a login bloatware that ISP has provided. I wanted my net to be homegroup but my ISP doesn't provide ipv6 so w7 had earlier said that homegroup can't be created without ipv6, so I had termed as workgroup in...

I am getting a message "You do not have permission to access \ \ 192.168.1.1. Contact your network administrator to request access" when i try to connect to my LAPTOP from my brother's LAPTOP. Type of connection : Wired Network Discovery is enabled File and Printer Sharing is enabled Password...

Hi All, I've just joined so hello to all! :cool: I hope you can help me with this very annoying issue: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Background: I recently upgraded a client's computing site installation. 4 Desktops, software (XP/MS Office...

Hi guys, I'm currently pulling my hair out trying to figure out how to set up different networks. whatever i try, all i seem to do is mess things up Link Removed due to 404 Error The situation is this, I currently have 2 different networks that i wish to connect my laptop to (at different...

Hi, I have forgotten if we have WinXP computers in a WinServer 2003 domain, To join that WinXP computer to a WinServer 2003 domain, do we simply have to add the IP address of the WinServer2003 DC in the DNS preference settings of WinXP computer? Also do we simply have to change the workgroup to...

I had to replace a server in a windows 7 workgroup. The server is named the same and the password is the same but I keep getting wrong password issues with old work statoins. New stations can log in fine.

After windows recently updated on one of my win7 machines, i can no longer see the other 4 computers on my network. 2 win7 Pro machines & 3 XP, all in same workgroup. I can see the affected win7 machine from all the other computers and can even access its files, the affected machine can...

I have a problem to add new PC with Windows 7 Ultimate in domain with server Windows 2008 SBS. In System Properties Computer Name I not have possibility in Change... menu to select Domain dot. I can select only Workgroup. Domain in Computer Name/Domain Changes is always grayed and not...

I've searched this online, but the solutions I found do not work so hopefully someone can shed some light on this. Scenario: In our office, all of our pc's are on a wireless network, have either Windows 7 Pro or Ultimate, and are all assigned to Workgroup: "OFFICE". I have 2 pc's at my desk...

Quite some time ago, someone else setup a share on my work pc, but I can't tell what was shared or who can view it. We have a wireless network in our office and we are all assigned to a Workgroup. I did test 1 other employee's pc and I was able to access my pc's 'Documents' folder so I know...

Accessing the shared resource on the XP from Windows 7 [new] HI I have two networked computers belonging to the same workgroup: one with Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit and the other with Windows XP Pro SP3. On the XP computer, I shared a folder allowing only the access to the Administrators...

recently, I've started using Windows8. I've added several other computers in my house (the other computers are operating under Windows7) to my workgroup. Since then I've noticed that one of the other computers automatically starts up, the moment I open Windows Explorer on my own computer. I...

My new laptop running Windows 7 Professional and it is not easily recognizing other workgroup computers. When, and if, it does, it does not staying connected to other computers and a wireless printer on my workgroup. I have a desktop that is running Windows XP Home. It is sharing its printer and...

I have both a laptop and desktop running Windows 7 Home Premium. I set up a workgroup on the desktop and joined the network from the laptop. I can see and access the laptop from the desktop but when I try to access the desktop from the laptop I an being asked for a user id and password. I did...