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Title: Anyone Successfully Joined Homegroup in Windows 7?
Post by: RickD_99 on November 06, 2009, 01:40:33 PM

Title says it all...has anyone with a DIR-655 installed Windows 7 and successfully joined a homegroup from a remote computer on the home network? I've got Win7 RTM installed on my HTPC in the living room and I would like to set up file sharing to the Win7 laptop in my office which has video editing software on it...the idea is the HTPC captures HD video and I would then edit said video on my office laptop without having to transfer the file from HTPC to laptop. I have no problem setting up a homegroup on my office laptop but when I then try to join the homegroup it fails to do so: I get an error message like "Homegroup could not be joined on this computer" etc. I've tried every trick I could find on the Web the last couple of days to try to troubleshoot this (the built in Win7 troubleshooter fails to determine the cause of the error).

Just wondering if there is some "magic bullet" default setting on my DIR-655 router that may be preventing me from joining a home group. TIA....

Title: Re: Anyone Successfully Joined Homegroup in Windows 7?
Post by: EddieZ on November 06, 2009, 02:06:22 PM

Quote from: RickD_99 on November 06, 2009, 01:40:33 PM

Just wondering if there is some "magic bullet" default setting on my DIR-655 router that may be preventing me from joining a home group. TIA....

No, not really. But there is  wireless setting that keeps wireless clients form connecting to eachother: http://192.168.1.64/Advanced/Advanced_Wireless.shtml
Have "WLAN Partition"  unchecked.

Title: Re: Anyone Successfully Joined Homegroup in Windows 7?
Post by: RickD_99 on November 06, 2009, 03:33:16 PM

Quote from: EddieZ on November 06, 2009, 02:06:22 PM

No, not really. But there is  wireless setting that keeps wireless clients form connecting to eachother: http://192.168.1.64/Advanced/Advanced_Wireless.shtml
Have "WLAN Partition"  unchecked.

I just checked my setup under advanced wireless settings and WLAN partition was already unchecked so that can't be the issue...thanks for the suggestion anyways!

Title: Re: Anyone Successfully Joined Homegroup in Windows 7?
Post by: davevt31 on November 06, 2009, 04:08:53 PM

Double check the HomeGroup Password.

Title: Re: Anyone Successfully Joined Homegroup in Windows 7?
Post by: grking on November 08, 2009, 10:25:52 AM

Home Group worked great for me on 3 wired, 2 wireless PC/laptop connections.

Title: Re: Anyone Successfully Joined Homegroup in Windows 7?
Post by: EddieZ on November 09, 2009, 11:19:22 AM

Quote from: davevt31 on November 06, 2009, 04:08:53 PM

Double check the HomeGroup Password.

The password is case sensitive....  ???

Title: Re: Anyone Successfully Joined Homegroup in Windows 7?
Post by: illusion121 on November 09, 2009, 07:50:50 PM

i've never had a problem joining homegroup with my laptop. It's not a dlink issue.

Title: Re: Anyone Successfully Joined Homegroup in Windows 7?
Post by: Sammydad1 on November 10, 2009, 01:44:07 PM

Hi,

make sure your basic windows networking "workgroup" matches you other LAN pc's that may not be running Win7...This is different to Win7 Homegroup setting.

Click on SYSTEM icon in control panel (using small icons setting for control panel -- WHat idiot used the name "Small Icons" to set the control panel settings is beyond me)

Under computer name, domain, and workgroup settings is the workgroup item...change it from there to match all your other pc's on your lan.