Been using Homegroup for awhile and to be honest, not happy with it at all. My main issue is that I can copy files from Homegroup and put them on my Laptop that is accessing it but I cna't copy entire folders for some reason. No popup, no error message, nothing. It just does nothing when I try moving a folder, even an empty one. Is there a way to fix this? Another issue I have with it is that I can't delete files from it by using my Laptop accessing it even though I have set full read/write permissions. Is this just the default of Homegroup without a way to change it? If so, is there another "easy" way to share folders and files over my network? What I have setup is a tower in another room that does all my downloading and storing of movies/music/files including external drives hooked up to it. To download something I would normally use RDC nd control it via that means and then auto move the downloaded files to a Homegroup shared folder and then back on my Laptop I would copy the files. If you guys know of an easier way you would be a life saver. Thanks so much!
This is the way you setup a Windows home network so that all machines talk to each other, not just win7 homegroups. Also, this will still work if all machines are win7. On all machines 1. Get rid of the Homegroup settings. 2. Set each machine to the same "workgroup" name On the machine you are using for storage 3. Find the folder/partition you wish to share, right click and goto properties 4. In the sharing tab, advanced sharing, share with: type in EVERYONE 5. in the security tab, edit, ADD a group or user name: type in EVERYONE and give it the security permissions you wish
