My laptop doesn't recognize that my desktop has homegroup sharing set up. Both computers are running NIS 2011 and Windows 7 Home Premium.
The trouble shooter seems to think the problem is with NIS.
Tried to implement solution here:
http://community.norton.com/t5/Norton-Internet-Security-Norton/Windows-7-Homegroup-Sharing-with-NIS-2011/td-p/404212
But was not successful.
In the time in between my original posting & now, i reinstalled NIS on my desktop. Now I cannot see my laptop on the Network Security Map but if I try to add my laptop to the Network by inputting IP address, NIS tells me that the laptop already exists on the network.
Also, the IP address for my desktop listed in my laptop's NIS Security Map does not match my desktops actual IP address.
But to answer your request above, both machines already had "shared" for trust level
My laptop doesn't recognize that my desktop has homegroup sharing set up. Both computers are running NIS 2011 and Windows 7 Home Premium.
The trouble shooter seems to think the problem is with NIS.
Tried to implement solution here:
http://community.norton.com/t5/Norton-Internet-Security-Norton/Windows-7-Homegroup-Sharing-with-NIS-2011/td-p/404212
But was not successful.
Are you connected via a router or DSL box? If a router, you may need to purge the network map, and reset the router. Then boot up the wired machine and then the wireless machine. Both machines should be recognized by the router and show in the Windows network map. Then you can make any necessary changes in Norton to accommodate.
I expected to have trouble connecting a Win 7 to two other XP machines to allow sharing. I found that Win 7 just about did it by itself once the Windows settings are correct.
I did purge the map & reset the router but the problem still persists.
Both computers show up in Explorer so in some respects they are connected. If I try to set up Homegroup on the Laptop (I use the Desktop to generate the Homegroup password), the laptop recognizes that a Homegroup is set up but it will not accept the password & establish the connection.
The troubleshooting wizard says the problem lies with NIS
The machine that generates the password is the machine that is building the home group. All others are joining the home group protected by the password. You won't be able to build the home group using the password generated by another machine.
You can actually build a home group while locking out the other computers using Norton. You can also set up full sharing between machines without building a home group. Windows is responsible for setting up privileges and sharing. Once in a while Norton needs to be tweaked a bit to follow those rules, but is not responsible for the set up.
Once you have everything set up that you believe to be correct, reboot both machines.
Not sure why but after revisting my laptop a few hours later and reattempting to join the home group, it suddenly accepted my password and I am connectted.
Thank you for your help.
I'm glad it's working for you. Thanks for giving us the update.