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[InflatableMouse]

I'm pulling my hair out over this ...

I had a Homegroup. Pc's were member of it. I reinstalled the PC that started it. All other PC's were still in that 'old' homegroup. I removed them. Rebooted them.

All pc's are still seeing the OLD homegroup from the PC that no longer exists.

I need to start a new Homegroup on my homeserver, but it won't let me as long as it sees the previous homegroup.

If anyone has an idea how to remove that, I'll owe you a beer. This is driving me nuts.

[Micromecca]

Set them to a standard workgroup and then join them to the homegroup again?

EDIT: Sorry that should have been 'and then create a new homegroup'

[InflatableMouse]

Homegroup is some weird stuff man. I had given up and was about to just create a new Workgroup with 3 pc's I could suddenly create a new Homegroup - I had done nothing to change that, apearently it just takes time for the Homegroup to dissapear or something.

Very frustrating, took me the better half of the day.

[Micromecca]

Nothing odder than what Microsoft deem to be appropriate behaviour 

Glad you got it sorted, out of interest why use Homegroup over Workgroup?

[InflatableMouse]

I'm a Windows system engineer, when I get home, I don't want to continue my job. After fiddling with shares, permissions, active directories and all that kind of stuff, I wanna come home and do something different.

So I thought it was so easy, create a Homegroup, right click folder, share with Homegroup (read only, read/write). Remove permissions, right click, share with nobody. And you know, it was until I decided to reinstall my pc a few weeks ago and move the Homegroup 'owner' to the HTPC.

How simple can it be?

I should have known better, if it sounds too good to be true, and it was!

[Micromecca]

I'm MCSE myself so feel your pain, but yeah, you should have known better  lol