Homegroup removed in RS4, what workaround can I use?

Bree · 27 Jun 2018

avada said:

Not really viable. You need to create accounts on all computers and log in from all computers to every other one by one...

Not if you turn off Password Protected Sharing on all the computers. Then it's just the permissions on the share and the ntfs permissions on the files/folders that controls access. You can set both to Everyone if you want completely free access.

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f14tomcat · 27 Jun 2018

avada said:

I assume you needed to share with "everyone" for this. But you need to manually find and access those folders, right?

No, don't believe I did. Used the Advanced Sharing. Since the username and PW are the same on all machines (MS account), it just worked that way.

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On the laptop, under Network, I see this, no searching for folders.

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avada · 27 Jun 2018

f14tomcat said:

No, don't believe I did. Used the Advanced Sharing. Since the username and PW are the same on all machines (MS account), it just worked that way.

Well, I need something between different OS versions and for computers on which I don't have an account.

f14tomcat · 27 Jun 2018

avada said:

Well, I need something between different OS versions and for computers on which I don't have an account.

Keep digging, you'll find it.

DeaconFrost · 27 Jun 2018

My suggestion is the run the same accounts on all Windows machines. They don't need to be MS accounts, but it will greatly simplify sharing between the different versions of Windows. Homegroup was always more difficult to configure and never worked as well as "true" networking.

Using accounts at home is far from unrealistic. I'd argue it's a necessity in the name of security.