Networking two houses together

[Spleaf]

I have two houses I need to network together for family members. They are across the street from each other in a small residential neighborhood. I have linked the two houses with Ubiquiti hardware and the hardware works great. My problem is that I cannot seem to get windows 10 to fileshare correctly. I have been to a few sites with no luck trying to figure out my problem. I have read through about 3 "read this before posting" posts trying to find my problem as well. One of the pc's has windows 10 pro and the other a home edition. Not sure if this is my problem either. I know I'm missing info but I don't want to make the post too long. Let me know what other info I can provide.

 

[razel]

Ever since Win 8, the thing that bothers me most is that whenever you connect to a WiFi, even the same WiFi name, it freaks out and goes into 'Public' network mode and doesn't automatically connect to file shares or in my situation networked printers. That's fine if they make it easy to switch, but they don't.

Most of the time, I now just go to 'Network and Sharing Center', homegroup, then change network location. Set it to private, then my network printers and your file share should show again. Also you'll need to check to see if your wireless clients are isolated. That is becoming more common with WiFi. Best of luck.

 

[frowertr]

Are they in the same homegroup?

 

[JackMDS]

First make sure that they are all on the same Network (subnet).

That means that all the Local IPs start with the same three octets.

E.G. 192.168.1.x only X varies between the computers.

If there is a Wireless Router in each house change the configuration of one Router and one that is configured like this.

Using Wireless Routers (or Modem/Wireless Router) as a Switch with an Access Point - http://www.ezlan.net/router_AP.html

As for Win 10 - http://www.geeksquad.co.uk/articles/how-to-set-up-file-sharing-on-windows-10

 

[Spleaf]

Ever since Win 8, the thing that bothers me most is that whenever you connect to a WiFi, even the same WiFi name, it freaks out and goes into 'Public' network mode and doesn't automatically connect to file shares or in my situation networked printers. That's fine if they make it easy to switch, but they don't.

Most of the time, I now just go to 'Network and Sharing Center', homegroup, then change network location. Set it to private, then my network printers and your file share should show again. Also you'll need to check to see if your wireless clients are isolated. That is becoming more common with WiFi. Best of luck.

There are 2 pc's in question. Both are on networks labeled "private".

 

[Spleaf]

Are they in the same homegroup?

I cannot get either pc to find a homegroup. I have made them on house1's pc and on house2's pc and neither of them can find the homegroup when joining.

 

[Spleaf]

First make sure that they are all on the same Network (subnet).

That means that all the Local IPs start with the same three octets.

E.G. 192.168.1.x only X varies between the computers.

If there is a Wireless Router in each house change the configuration of one Router and one that is configured like this.

Using Wireless Routers (or Modem/Wireless Router) as a Switch with an Access Point - http://www.ezlan.net/router_AP.html

As for Win 10 -http://www.geeksquad.co.uk/articles/how-to-set-up-file-sharing-on-windows-10

The main router, two ubiquiti units and the secondary router are all on the 192.168.1 subnet. Also, the secondary router has a bridge mode, which it is currently set up in. I am receiving internet from the other house. I feel like it is maybe a windows issue, but I'm lost tbh.

 

[JackMDS]

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-set-up-a-homegroup-network-in-windows-10.html

 

[timoseewho]

Are they in the same homegroup?

sorry for barging in, but are homegroups still necessary? my computers A and B aren't in the same homegroups but A can read/write files in B no problem

 

[frowertr]

sorry for barging in, but are homegroups still necessary? my computers A and B aren't in the same homegroups but A can read/write files in B no problem

No. They just need to be on the same subnet and belong to the same Workgroup.

However, I've found that file sharing seems to work 'easier' if they are on the same Homegroup.

 

[JackMDS]

No. They just need to be on the same subnet and belong to the same Workgroup.

However, I've found that file sharing seems to work 'easier' if they are on the same Homegroup.

Actually if One Opt to use IPv4 WorkGroup (as oppose to HomeGroup), it is better to switch Off HomeGroup and Uncheck IPv6 from the Network properties.

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Permission and Security, check the following settings.

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.

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.

**Note . All users that are allowed to share need to have account onall 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. It is available to avoid the need of configuring permission to each on its own, it does not mean

Everyone that feel that they would like to login.

 

[timoseewho]

No. They just need to be on the same subnet and belong to the same Workgroup.

However, I've found that file sharing seems to work 'easier' if they are on the same Homegroup.

ah i see, just wondering because i've recently been trying to get a network going with sharing, etc. but it's been a real pain in the ass lol

i guess it doesn't help that our machines range from xp to 10 lol

 

[Spleaf]

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-set-up-a-homegroup-network-in-windows-10.html

I'm familiar with how to setup a homegroup. The created homegroup is simply not available to join from the other pc and vice versa.

 

[Spleaf]

For clarification the network looks something like this MAIN ROUTER (LINKSYS WITH DD-WRT)>>>UNMANAGED GIG SWITCH>>>UBIQUITI#1>>>UBIQUITI#2>>>LINKSYS IN BRIDGE MODE

 

[Spleaf]

Update: File sharing is up. Seems I had something wrong in my router setup. Had to hard reboot today and now it is working. Still can't get homegroup to work. I guess I don't need it now though.