I Can See Homegroup Drives But Cannot Access

Discussion in 'Software' started by 20Valve, Apr 15, 2012.

  1. 20Valve

    20Valve Sergeant

    Greetings Geeks -

    I am trying to sort out some Seagate Dashboard, as per my last post. In an attempt to gain an understanding of things, I decided to explore some Homegroup connectivity stuff. To put my situation i perspective, I am savvy overall, but networking is my kryptonite. Anyway, here it goes . . .

    I have a Windows 7 desktop. I have a functional wireless router. As far as I can tell, I have a home group properly set up. I set my desktop, printers, and such to be shared by everyone with access to the network. When I attempt to connect to the desktop via my home group with my Vista laptop, I can see the printers, devices, and shared folders, etc., but I cannot access any of the folders. I receive an error message to the effect that there is a problem and I need to check the spelling of the home group and such.

    Any ideas? Thanks for any help
     
  2. tgell

    tgell Major Geek Extraordinaire

    Homegroup is actually accessible only between Windows 7 computers . But, it can be tweaked. Check the following link.

    http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/wi...group-content-accessible-to-vista-and-xp/1910

     
  3. 20Valve

    20Valve Sergeant

    tgell -

    Thanks for the info. I set things up as prescribed with no luck. Same result. On a positive note, I got the Seagate Dashboard (another drive with interface software) working. Not through their crappy software though. The drive shows up in the network tab with the other stuff I can't access from my desktop. The Seagate Dashboard drive is connected to the desktop as well.

    So, it seems I have other gremlins at work. I am not sure I am going to bother trying to get the thing working over the network anymore. I will mess around a little more with the stuff you sent me, but I am not sure I want to budget my time just to get a USB HD working on a network with a Vista machine!

    Thanks for the help!
     

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