Silicon Shecky

I’m really loosing some love for Windows 7. Homegroup is set up proper, and I still can’t see the machines in the homegroup. I shut down all virus/firewall protection, still can’t see it. I know I will need to check the hardware firewall I have at home to see if it is blocking for some odd reason, but I hit something a little different last night also.

First let me explain that my Windows 7 machines have no problem accessing shares. Just regular shares I have set up on machines. I can access the public areas of the Windows 7 machines from each on also. So this really is making no sense to me.

The new issue I hit is that I get an error when I try to just straight up share my printer. I go to the sharing tab, click on allow sharing, and click on apply and get an error. This is on my Windows 7 pc that the printer is hooked up to. I can share it out of my XP machine, but that is not the machine that I do most printing from. So now its back to the troubleshooting issues.

I am willing to bet that the printer sharing and homegroup problems have a common solution.