Nice one, glad you got yours sorted, oldrock :) I tried doing the same - and was quite encouraged after all the other stuff I'd done, as when I fired all the PCs back up, the new HomeGroup was...

Heh yeah I'll keep digging. I don't like puters beating me ;)

Main reason for the perseverance on the HomeGroup side of things is the wife - I can deal with mapped drives etc. easy enough, but...

OK - so this got me a little closer to a solution - I can now connect to my media PC via "Network". After checking the reg settings on both mine and the media PC, I found that the media PC did have...

My apologies linw - I got called away unexpectedly for work, and didn't have the login details with me whilst I was away. Also, my apologies for not having posted the error code - I did have it in my...

No-one? I know it's a bit of an odd one, but figured someone would at least have a suggestion or two?

Update Aug 15th: The network issues have been resolved by modifying SMB2 settings in the registry, as per my posts on page 2. Now, just a persistent HomeGroup error remains.
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Ok, first...