[dba-Tech] Workgroup password

[Jim Lawrence]

What version of Windows 7 do you have? 

According to what I have read as I never ran into such a problem and I have connected dozens (hundreds) or various Windows versions; the key issue that many over-look is: make sure the home group listener and home group provider are not disabled in admin tools services.

You can also try setting your home-group to a different name that the default like: i.e Arthur. 
 
Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2016 9:18:52 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Workgroup password

Thanks, Lambert. Unfortunately, now I have a deeper puzzle. I tried to join
the homegroup (which was created on my desktop) from my laptop; pasted in
the password, and received the message "Windows can't set up a homegroup on
this computer." I ran the homegroup troubleshooter, which was no help at
all.

The peculiar (well, to me, at least) is that when I run Windows Explorer,
and click Network, I can see the other computer, but I can't access it. I
am asked for a name and password. These are the same on both computers.

Some months back I had this working. But then I had to replace the hard
disk in my laptop and since then, I can't make it work correctly.

A.

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 10:37 AM, Heenan, Lambert <Lambert.Heenan at aig.com>
wrote:

> Check here...
>
> http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=faq-Windows-10&faq=116
>
> There's a 'View or print the homegroup password link on that screen.
>
> Lambert
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