Cannot get Windows 7 homegroups to work properly. Double-click a shared library on another machine in the residential group doesn't.

I just bought a new laptop with Windows 7 on it, so I decided to try the new homegroup in Windows 7 feature.  I activated the homegroup on my desk and apart from the music, photos and videos.  I then joined the residential group with the new portable computer using the password provided by the office shared libraries and the same 3 homegroup.  All appeard to put up correctly, but I can't browse libraries shared each machine to other machine.  I have the Homegroup and click on the other machine and I see 3 libraries, but when I click on any one of them does nothing.  This happens on both machines.   The only way I can get the residential groups to work is to first go to the other machine and provide credentials on the other machine.  After doing this, the homegroup files begin to work.  I was under the impression that the homegroup password was all I had to have access to all shared folders with the homegroup, but the only way I can get the homegroup to work is first authenticate itself to other machine using a user name and password.

The two machines are configured with the following:

  • Network discovery is enabled
  • File sharing and printer is enabled
  • Public folder sharing is on
  • Streaming Media is on
  • File sharing connections is configured to use 128-bit encryption
  • Password protected sharing is on
  • Homegroup connections is set up to allow Windows to manage.

I came across this forum because I had the same problem today. Real quickly, I have two laptops, one running windows 7 Home premium 32-bit and the other runs windows 7 Professional 32-bit. I have comcast for my internet provider and their cable modem attached to my belkin wireless router. I don't know if my fix will work for someone else, but it worked for me, so this is.

1. unplug the router cable modem wireless
2. connect the router to one of your computers using an ethernet cord
3. open a web browser and type in the IP address of the router in the Web page bar (as when you type hotmail.com to go check your email). Mine is a belkin so 192.168.2.1 has worked for me.
4. the control of the router page should open, and one of the options should be to reset factory settings, do this.
5. DO NOT CONNECT THE ROUTER TO THE CABLE MODEM
6 configure the router in the same way that you did when you first installed the router, but just to be sure, I used another name for the network
7. Once you have the password set up and named network you can disconnect the ethernet cable.
8. connect to the new network without wire of each computer (just like when you connect to a wireless network) choose House (rather than work or public) for the network location.
9. at this stage my homegroup didn't work, if it is not there for you, you may need to set up the homegroup in Control Panel.
10. once the residential group is working the way you want to connect the router wireless to the modem cable and check to see if your internet connection is working by opening a web browser and go to any old site
Hope this helps!
Cameron

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