Hello Community,
I am running into problems configuring HomeGroup with my collection of Windows 8.1 machines.
I have 3 Microsoft Accounts:
- Personal: first.last@live.com
- Business 1: first@domain.us
- Business 2: first.last@domain.com
I have these 3 accounts added on two machines:
- Machine A: Personal/Business 1
- Machine B: Business 2
All 3 have the same first and last name. So, when all 3 join Homegroup, there is only 1 node in explorer ("First Last", with the icon being from the live.com account, for whatever reason), and 3 nodes under that with the machines the accounts are on.
The problem I am running into (besides there just being 1 node in home group, there should be 3 -- 1 per account, IMO) is that sharing libraries from Machine A\Business 1 does not show up properly in the Explorer of Machine B\Business 2. For instance, if I share the Documents Library, it displays in the Machine B\Business 2's explorer, but when I double-click it, it doesn't do anything.
Furthermore, if I explicitly share Machine A\Business 1's Document's folder (not library, the folder), the folder does show up in Machine B\Business 2's explorer, but when I double-click it, it produces an error dialog saying it cannot navigate to "C:\Users\Business1\Documents".
It appears that when Machine A\Business 1 shares items, the shares are being logged into Homegroup as local resources, and not network resources. So, when another user attempts to access them, they are being accessed with a local path rather than a network path.
Is this a known issue? If so, is there a workaround/fix for it?
Thank you for any assistance you can provide,
Michael