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Devices => PC's and Other Hardware => Topic started by: InflatableMouse on July 12, 2012, 06:33:15 am
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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.
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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'
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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.
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Nothing odder than what Microsoft deem to be appropriate behaviour ;D
Glad you got it sorted, out of interest why use Homegroup over Workgroup?
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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!
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I'm MCSE myself so feel your pain, but yeah, you should have known better :-X lol