Create homegroup between Windows 8 and Windows 7 machines
There are two possible reasons I can see for your problems :
- IPv6 is not turned on on both computers and/or in the router
- The Windows 8 computer uses a Live login while Windows 7 uses a local one
Both computers should be fully patched, including optional Windows Updates
For the second problem, you will need to change the Windows 8 login to local.
You will also need to fulfill all the HomeGroup Requirements in Windows 8/8.1 :
- All PCs in the homegroup must each have network sharing turned on.
- All PCs in the homegroup must each have network discovery turned on for the Private network profile.
- All PCs in the homegroup must each have the correct date and time set.
- All PCs in the homegroup must each have a different PC name.
- All PCs in the homegroup must have the same workgroup name.
- All PCs in the homegroup must have the services below and their dependencies set to Running (start). They are by default.
- DNS Client
- Function Discovery Provider Host
- Function Discovery Resource Publication
- HomeGroup Listener
- HomeGroup Provider
- Network List Service
- Peer Networking Grouping
- Server
- SSDP Discovery
- UPnP Device Host
- All PCs in the homegroup must have their network connection adapter settings below turned on (checked) in its Properties.
- File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks
- Internet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IPv6)
- Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)
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Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Mr_Green over 1 year
I am trying to create a Homegroup through my wifi network between my
- PC (Windows 7) and
- Office Laptop (Windows 8)
When I create a Homegroup network using my PC then I can see all shared files in my laptop but I can't see shared files and even laptop name on my PC.
When I created a Homegroup from my Laptop, I can't see that there is a Homegroup available on my PC.
When I checked
control panel -> windows firewall
in my office laptop, I saw this image.I can't even click any of the links in the above form page due to lack of admin privileges.
What could be the problem?
Is it because I don't have admin privileges to my office laptop?
EDIT: I talked with my office admin. He said that there might be problem with my Home PC. He checked my laptop and said there is nothing which is blocking. I checked my home PC, everything looks fine. please give me some points on assumption which might help me to solve this issue. also I can provide more info if needed.
EDIT 2: Just trying provide brief information. From office laptop, I can access already shared common folders like "My pictures", "My videos", "My Documents" etc.. of other Home PC but can't access the folders which I am sharing for example, I have one folder on Home PC which has movies in it. when I right clicked it and said shared in
home group (can read/write)
, I can't access it. I can see that folder from my laptop but I can't access it. there is a error like - "you don't have enough permissions".From my Home PC, I can't even see my office laptop name in home group.
One of the users in super user chat has told me to do following:
Don't even think about a home group; you are way overcomplicating this... just turn on shared folder for your user account (or for a whole drive) on the computer you're able to ping from the other computer, then type in Windows Explorer: \1.2.3.4\ShareName where 1.2.3.4 is the IP address assigned to the internal NIC of your other computer and ShareName is the name given to the shared folder/drive it's not rocket science.. you don't need something called a home group to get folder sharing working those damn things almost never work anyway because the security settings are always so locked down that it won't let it work
I did same but didn't work for me.
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Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 about 10 yearsthe Office Laptop might/probably has stricter firewall rules. have you checked/adjusted the firewall to allow the homegroup traffic? (Note: You may not be able to due to lack of Admin privileges)
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Mr_Green about 10 years@techie007 yes I think you are right. just now checked windows firewall and I found this.
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Mr_Green about 10 years[techie007 in deleted chat] Example: symantec.com/connect/articles/…
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Mr_Green about 10 years@techie007, I talked with my office admin. He said that there might be problem with my Home PC. He checked my laptop and said there is nothing which is blocking. I checked my home PC, everything looks fine. please give me some points on assumption which might help me to solve this issue. also I can provide more info if needed.
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Mr_Green about 10 yearsHey sorry and thanks.. I never got time to test this.. I will mark it as answer when I test it. I don't want to mislead other future readers :).
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Synetech about 10 years@Mr_Green, that’s very responsible of you, but unfortunately the automatic bounty-assignment may mislead future readers. ¬_¬