I have Sony Vaio Laptop Win7 HP "V" and Compaq Presario PC Win7 Pro "P". P and V are on the same network, P wired, V wirelessly. P & V are in the same workgroup and in each computer's HomeGroup tree it sees the other. P can browse shares on V with read/write, no passwords requested. V cannot browse P, credentials are asked for. I am trying to set up both so they can browse shares on each other with read/write requiring no passowrds though HomeGroup. I have rebooted each, both have Windows Firewall enabled, both see the network as "Home" I have run MS's HomeGroup and Network Troubleshooter. Thanks for any help!

I have Sony Vaio Laptop Win7 HP "V" and Compaq Presario PC Win7 Pro "P". P and V are on the same network, P wired, V wirelessly. P & V are in the same workgroup and in each computer's HomeGroup tree it sees the other. P can browse shares on V with read/write, no passwords requested. V cannot browse P, credentials are asked for. I am trying to set up both so they can browse shares on each other with read/write requiring no passowrds though HomeGroup. I have rebooted each, both have Windows Firewall enabled, both see the network as "Home" I have run MS's HomeGroup and Network Troubleshooter. Thanks for any help! Go to the Compaq Presario PC "P" Under network & sharing center>advanced sharing settings, scroll till you see password protection sharing & have it turn off, next hit on save changes tab. Once done, go to the sony vaio laptop "V" & try to browse or access "P" againPlease remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Thank you for the suggestion. However, I already the "Turn off password protected sharing" option selected under "Password protected sharing" ---------- Tom Schulte Outsight Raduo Hours http://outsight.podomatic.com

By the way is there any third party firewall on both pc & laptop other than windows firewall? If there is try uninstalling it for the time being, reboot & try connecting againPlease remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Thanks a lot, Daniel. No 3rd Party firewalls, each computer uses MS Security Essentials and MS Firewall, exclusively. The Presario PC was built from the Win7Pro disk less than a week ago and has had really no 3rd party anything. However, I figure it out. I have another PC Win7 HP (some All-in-1 PC) in the network and tired it on the Home group - same behavior it could be seen by Persario, but it could not see Persario. At this time, I reset the HG pwd from the Persario. The laptop and All-in-All all recognized the change but when I updated the passwords, they went to the same state. This drew me to the UVerse Gateway I use as it is the common point of the wireless laptop and wired PCs (All-in-1 also has a wireless connection.) I did a ipconfig /release and then /renew on Persario and Laptop and they briefly saw each other in HomeGroup, but then failed again. However, they now consistent could access their shares both ways, just through Network (not Home Group). That was an improvement! I power cycled my gateway and a switch and it they have been reliable for Home Group and Network shares since. After the same ipconfig commands, so could All-In-1, for that matter. I verified with read/write file activity across shares and printing a test page over the network to a printer local to Presario PC. Thanks everyone! ---------- Tom Schulte Outsight Raduo Hours http://outsight.podomatic.com

Thanks a lot, Daniel. No 3rd Party firewalls, each computer uses MS Security Essentials and MS Firewall, exclusively. The Presario PC was built from the Win7Pro disk less than a week ago and has had really no 3rd party anything. However, I figure it out. I have another PC Win7 HP (some All-in-1 PC) in the network and tired it on the Home group - same behavior it could be seen by Persario, but it could not see Persario. At this time, I reset the HG pwd from the Persario. The laptop and All-in-All all recognized the change but when I updated the passwords, they went to the same state. This drew me to the UVerse Gateway I use as it is the common point of the wireless laptop and wired PCs (All-in-1 also has a wireless connection.) I did a ipconfig /release and then /renew on Persario and Laptop and they briefly saw each other in HomeGroup, but then failed again. However, they now consistent could access their shares both ways, just through Network (not Home Group). That was an improvement! I power cycled my gateway and a switch and it they have been reliable for Home Group and Network shares since. After the same ipconfig commands, so could All-In-1, for that matter. I verified with read/write file activity across shares and printing a test page over the network to a printer local to Presario PC. Thanks everyone! ---------- Tom Schulte Outsight Raduo Hours http://outsight.podomatic.com Don't mention, if you would like all of your network pc & laptop to be seen as home group & not basically just network shares, other than what you did above, the most straight forward is to apply the same home group password for all. Also i didn't realised you are running MSE, just incase the problem occurs again, uninstall MSE as well as apply same home group password for allPlease remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Thank you, Daniel Boths PCs & that laptop always had the same home group password for all. I did change that password to see if I could detect anything, fix anyting, or maybe get a helpful error message. When I changed the password at Presario PC, laptio and All-in-One PC all detected the change, so I knew they could communicate. That got me thinking to ping them. When I pinged Presario from laptop, it said it couldn't be reached. I did a ping of Presario's IP address and that could be reached. I did a ping -a on the PC name I used prior to the upgrade to Win7 Pro and got Presario's current IP address. That led me to the common network hardware, further substantiated by the fact that All-in-One was having the same symptoms. The ipconfig /release and ipconfig /renew helped, but it wasn't until a power cycle of the UVerse Gateway router and my Netgear switch that things were completely resolved. I am running MSE on all thee, I never uninstalled MSE or otherwise disabled it, so it was not the problem for me.Tom Schulte / Plexus Systems