Annoying homegroup issues windows 7

[slag]

I'm at wits end with this issue and need help AT. I set up a homegroup on one windows 7 premium pc and then went to another one, plugged in the homegroup password and was able to see both computers in my homegroup. Problem is that I was unable to connect to any shares I made on either computer, even after putting in a username and password, although I had checked to connect without using usernames and passwords. My user/pass on both computers is the same also.

So I read up on someone having a similar problem and he renamed one computer, rebooted, named it back to the old name, rebooted, and it fixed his issue. I did this, and sure enough, i was able to access both shares without having a user/pass.

I then downloaded a couple windows patches, bounced both machines, and the issue was back. did the rename trick again, and voila, it worked.

Rebooted again to fix an XBMC issue, and the issue is back.. GRRRR

Why is this happening and what do I have to do to fix this once and for all?
Both OSs are windows 7 home premium, 64 bit, with SP1 and the latest patches. Shares are set up for everyone to have full access with no passwords.

Here is the current error I get when trying to access one of the shares:

IF I click on homegroups in my computer, I get this error.. How could the homegroup have gone away??

 

[slag]

Figured i'd stump you guys. It makes absolutely no sense why this won't work. I can't even map drives from one pc to another even when "everyone" has full read/write and both are in the same workgroup.

 

[JackMDS]

First make sure that the Computers' firewalls allow free LAN traffic.
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On Everyone does Not mean Everyone that wants to logon.

If accounts are set only for John, Jill, and Jack, using the Everyone setting in the Folder Permissions saves the effort of setting Permission separately for John, Jill, and Jack.

Everyone else is Not in the Everyone group, only John, Jill, and Jack.

What that means? It means that all the Individual Users have to be established on each computer network that participated in sharing.

Then if you want to same permission to all of them, you do not have to enter them one by one, you can use Everyone.

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Permission and Security issues with Vista/Win7, check the following settings.
All users that are allowed to share need to have account on all the computers that they are allowed to connect to.

Everyone is an account, it means a group of all of the users that already have an account and been established as users.

Using the Everyone feature saves the need of configuring permission to each of the established users.

Users that do not have an account on the computer are Not part of the Everyone Group.

If security on the LAN is Not needed and users are Not established, then switching On the Guest account provides semi-open configuration.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Turn-the-guest-account-on-or-off

Point to the a Folder that meant to to be share. Right click and choose properties.
In the properties
Click on the Security tab shown in the pic bellow to the right) and check that the users and their permission (shown in the pic bellow center and left) are correctly configured. Then do the same to the Permission tab.
This screen shot is from Win 7, Vista's menus are similar.

http://www.ezlan.net/Win7/Permission-Security.jpg

In both the Security panel, and the Permission panel you have to highlight each User/Group and examine that the Permission Controls are checked correctly.
When everything is OK, Reboot the Network (Router, and computer).

* Note . The Groups and Users shown in the screen-shoot are just an example. Your list will look the way your system is configured.



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[slag]

First make sure that the Computers' firewalls allow free LAN traffic.
-----------
On Everyone does Not mean Everyone that wants to logon.

Right. I only have one user on each machine, plus the guest account which is disabled.

If accounts are set only for John, Jill, and Jack, using the Everyone setting in the Folder Permissions saves the effort of setting Permission separately for John, Jill, and Jack.

Everyone else is Not in the Everyone group, only John, Jill, and Jack.

What that means? It means that all the Individual Users have to be established on each computer network that participated in sharing.

Then if you want to same permission to all of them, you do not have to enter them one by one, you can use Everyone.

Yep, I agree. I'm using home premium, both pcs are in the same workgroup, and both are using the same username/password combination.

-----------------
Permission and Security issues with Vista/Win7, check the following settings.
All users that are allowed to share need to have account on all the computers that they are allowed to connect to.

Everyone is an account, it means a group of all of the users that already have an account and been established as users.

Using the Everyone feature saves the need of configuring permission to each of the established users.

Users that do not have an account on the computer are Not part of the Everyone Group.

If security on the LAN is Not needed and users are Not established, then switching On the Guest account provides semi-open configuration.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Turn-the-guest-account-on-or-off

Point to the a Folder that meant to to be share. Right click and choose properties.
In the properties
Click on the Security tab shown in the pic bellow to the right) and check that the users and their permission (shown in the pic bellow center and left) are correctly configured. Then do the same to the Permission tab.
This screen shot is from Win 7, Vista's menus are similar.

http://www.ezlan.net/Win7/Permission-Security.jpg

In both the Security panel, and the Permission panel you have to highlight each User/Group and examine that the Permission Controls are checked correctly.
When everything is OK, Reboot the Network (Router, and computer).

* Note . The Groups and Users shown in the screen-shoot are just an example. Your list will look the way your system is configured.
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I'm sharing drives, not folders, so the setup is a little different, but I've done this literally tens of times if not more in the past and have set up homegroups before without incident, so this is very odd to me why its not working.