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Originally Posted by gr8fl4porsche
Microsoft has really dumbed down the whole network install with a system called HomeGroup. It only works with '7' computers but basically you install the OS and it instantly recognizes the other computers on the network and configures the sharing and permissions depending on how you answer a couple of questions.
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Not quite. I've spent hours over the last several days trying get the supposedly dumbed down Win7 Homegroups to work properly. The file sharing was more effective and simpler in Vista, or at least it worked more consistently than Homegroups.
We've got 3 Win 7 Home Premium machines on our home network, running McAfee, Norton and Trend Micro A/V programs respectively.
After going through and manually disabling the A/V on each machine, creating a homegroup on one, sharing the password and joining the other two to the network, the homegroup
occasionally works. For awhile. And then one or another machine will either not recognize the homegroup at all, or will recognize it but not open shared folders/files, etc., with no apparent reason. Very frustrating and time consuming.
I've decided that I will have to wait for the inevitable SP1 for W7 for an effective Homegroup fix...
Tim