Homegroup preventing access to directories

Hi, I have a similar problem as in this thread. I was getting some help from another networking forum, but we were not able to solve it.

The problem is, from those helping is that the Homegroup premissions is preventing access to the NAS directories. The NAS can be seen as well as access the control panel of the NAS but not the directories.

Leave Home group and just use Standard networking. Home Group is just for Library & printer.

Someone is going to be wrong, and someone is going to be right !

JerometheGiraff said:

Someone is going to be wrong, and someone is going to be right !

Click to expand...

Really do not know why you posted that. Only Newb's use Home Group. Power Users use Standard Networking sharing protocols. A whole lot more secure.

Leave Home group and just use Standard networking. Home Group is just for Library & printer.

Click to expand...

I said, what I said before because, I left the homegroup and the problem persists ?

Did you actually go in on all computers and "Leave Homegroup? Also did you check firewall settings on all computers, that they can see each other on the network.

I do not have mine on any machine, when they are connected to the home network. That is because the Router I use, has a hardened set of rules, that no one could get past if, if they tried.

99.99% of networking issues people have. Have to do with third party Firewall software. Further info on network sharing, go to EZLAN.NET.

I'm don't have a router, only a modem, does it matter ?

Yes. Especially if you plan on using more than one device. If the "modem" you have, has four Ethernet ports on it. It is what is considered a Gateway.

broe23 said:

Yes. Especially if you plan on using more than one device. If the "modem" you have, has four Ethernet ports on it. It is what is considered a Gateway.

Click to expand...

All computers should still leave the homegroup ? It has 3/4 Ethernet ports. Is there anything that needs to be done differently since it's a Gateway ?

Nothing needs to be done differently. Anything you use to connect to either a Modem or is an ADSL Gateway, all of them work the same way. As for the Homegroup issue, yes sometimes Homegroup rules do get screwed up if you use third party software. Other times it just does it on its own.

You could just go and do a Master Reset of the Gateway, and see if that fixes things. It takes a while before the Gateway is fully operational after a Master Reset. If you just flush the IP Table, it is ready after you reboot the Gateway.

Remove all the computers from the homegroup, then make sure firewalls are off, try that, if that doesn't work, do a Reset of the master Gateway ? If so how do you do this ? My IP is dynamic from my ISP ?

Press the reset button on the back of the Gateway.

I reset the gateway / modem, it still doesn't work ?

You still need to go through all machines and flush the DNS. There is a tool on Bleeping computer.com. Go to their download area and search for "farbar".

There is three tools regarding this area. You want to download minitoolbox and service scanner. It fixes any network problems.

The time I had an issue with the two desktops running 7 pro 32-bit we had with homegroup. I tried everything I could to fix it. Nothing worked. Even tried the remove network driver, set up a new account. Nothing mattered with the one desktop that had the printer attached.

I finally just pulled the trigger and did a complete reinstall of the OS. I put all of my son's stuff on a Toshiba 1TB Canvio I had and then spent the next couple of nights going and reloading all of his programs and documents.

That was when I decided to get the NAS & use Clonezilla to make a image when stuff was installed or removed. Also used a 50 gb box.com accuI got when iOS 5 came out, to store a copy of all local documents and kept a portable copy of everything on the Canvio.

I've run this situation though three people, all those people were unable to get it fixed. I'm not going to reinstall the OS, I'm extremely pissed off, after two and a half weeks, this problem is not solved.

Leave the homegroup, join the homegroup, leave the home group, join the homegroup, all I have is a huge network mess whereas I can't even share a folder between two computers, let alone access my NAS though the client computer, this has turned into a extreme networking mess, everyone telling me different crap and nothing works. I've searched online for numerous answers and nothing works, nothing, nothing, nothing works, instead a screwed up mess.

Regular networking is all you need. Home Groups was not well thought out by Microsoft. The coding is sloppy for it.

Regular Networking doesn't work, since removing my computer from a homegroup as you suggested my entire network is a giant #$%#$% mess.

Thank you broe23,
The task of adding a windows 8.1 computer to my regular network proved difficult. Never created a home group as regular networking works for me, 8 networked computers with various operating systems, Windows XP Pro, Vista & Windows 7 Pro. Guess what, one computer on the network had home group enabled (my son). Even though it was not utilized it caused the problem. After I left the home group on that system, restarted all computers, regular network sharing worked for the windows 8.1 system.
TeeHeeHee, learned something new today, always check all settings on every computer in the network as someone else may have changed something.
Cheers!
Toni