Networking Problem

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JamesAB

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Hello Everybody,

Once upon a time, before Windows 10, my PC, my wife's PC and my Laptop were on good speaking terms. Since installing W10, although they can see eachother, they refuse and keep on asking for Windows Credentials. One aspect of these credentials seems to be the PC name, eg., Jim-PC, Jim-Laptop etc., but the other part is a password. Since I have tried all my usual passwords, I wonder whether these may have been windows-generated, if so I have no idea what they are. I have tried all sorts of things to get these PCs to be riends with each other to no avail. They were once in a nice home group but it now seems that some are and some are not or if they are they are not saying.

What I would like to do is to delete any thing that connects these PCs together Homegroups, credentials or whatever and start again since it is not only the PCs that have got confused I am too. I am still trying to figure out the difference between a domain and a Homegroup! So, a clean slate it what i would like.

Can anyone help?

Thanks & Regards,

Jim
 
This gets curiouser: Our three PCs and other devices are shown under "Network" in file explorer on each of the PC's. I can create Homegroups on two of the PCs but each time the others cannot "see" the created Homegroups. On the main (my) Desktop PC windows says it cannot create a home group! I wonder why........?
The saga continues!

Jim
 
Some progress. I made sure that there were no home groups on the network. I then created one on my Laptop. My wife's PC recognised that my laptop had created a home group and, by entering the password, was able to join it.

On MY PC I was now given the option to JOIN the home group but, when going through the wizard and entering the password, my PC said it couldn't CREATE a home group!

Still two out of three is progress!! i need to find why my PC is being so difficult!

Jim
 
I managed to fond a solution to this problem a few days ago and meant to update this thread at the time. As I didn't please forgive me if I only point in the direction of the solution. As far as I recall the home group Listener and provider services were not (all?) running and neither were the three services that begin with the word "Peer." These are all listed in "Component services" which can be accessed via the Cortana search facility in W10. It was not possible to simply start all of these until the following procedure found by extensive "Googling" had been carried out:

Go to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\ and remae "MachineKeys" folder "MachineKeys-old"
Create a new "MachineKeys" folder, right click on it and select "Properties" then "Security."
Set "Full Control" permissions to "Everyone."

It was then possible to turn on the above mentioned Services and, after making sure all the old Homegroups had been left, a new one was created and all the three PC now speak to each other.

Regards,

Jim
 

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