Windows 7 Homegroup between Wired and Wireless Clients
N1 Belkin (v1) Router1 Dell Desktop (Running Windows 7Ultimate RTM) Connected with a Cat5 cable to the Belkin1 ThinkPad (Running Windows 7 Home Premium RTM) Connected Wirelessly to the BelkinI have contacted Belkin with this issue already and they have given me a Pre-Release FW for the device and I still have the following issue: I can create a Homegroup on either computer successfully. I then go to the other computer, open Homegroup and can see the Homegroup that I created on the first computer. I then attempt to join the HomeGroup, I enter the pw and after about a min I get a message that it cannot join the Homegroup. BUT if I connect the Laptop to the Belkin with a Cat5 cable (so both are now wired connections) I can join a home group with no problem, I can than disconnect the wire and go back to using the wireless card on my laptop and the Homegroup is available. BUTonce I restart the laptopthe Homegroup is no longer available.I have tried turning off the windows firewall and have also tried to reboot both computers between each step of creating and joining a home group. This is driving me nuts If anyone out there has any ideas I would love to hear them. Oh and BTW I am using Microsoft Security Essentials (Beta) on both computers
August 12th, 2009 3:24am

I have done some more troubleshooting. While the laptop is wireless, if I attempt to ping either way using the -6 switch to ping the IPv6 address i get a Destination host unreachable error. I can ping using IPv4. And when they are both connected via CAT5 i can ping each other using IPv6 and the Homegroup works. I will send this info to Belkin and see what happens. I dont understand why but it looks like the router isnt passing te IPv6 packets between the wired and wireless segments. FUN FUN!
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August 12th, 2009 4:09am

So have you found a solution to this problem?
August 18th, 2009 5:31am

Try powering down your router, wait 30 sec and power it back up. I have the same router and this is how I managed to get my laptop to connect and join the homegroup. Hope this helps.
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August 19th, 2009 5:32pm

This might be worth a try. I had workgroups working, but then they stopped working for an unknown reason. Changing the machine names seems to have fixed the issues. (I changed them back, and it still works) http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-networking/homegroup-asking-for-network-password-when/02508c8a-df8e-4c68-8034-0719a7e5a187?tm=1319698820971&page=1#footer
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