Can't connect my school laptop to my homegroup

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Well I've been trying quite a lot of things, it worked to connect through my other laptop which is not given by my school so there's nothing wrong with the homegroup itself. But I need a way to connect this "domain owned laptop" into my homegroup. It has IPv6 working, all the services are started and I've also deleted idstore.sst without success.

EDIT: The error that comes up is "Windows cannot set up homegroup on this computer"

Checking through this: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee617166(v=ws.10).aspx

Sebastian R

Posted 2012-11-01T18:58:03.370

Reputation: 41

1Do the policies set on the system allow it to be on a homegroup? – Shinrai – 2012-11-01T19:08:46.160

Have you read through this: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Why-can-t-I-join-a-homegroup

– TheUser1024 – 2012-11-01T19:17:50.457

I have read through http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Why-can-t-I-join-a-homegroup.

How can I check that Shinrai?

– Sebastian R – 2012-11-01T19:21:43.437

A good friend of mine told me to run gpedit.msc, unfortunately I don't know how to continue from here. – Sebastian R – 2012-11-01T19:37:34.987

Can you change your network location to home, or does that require admin creds? Microsoft lists a couple of GPOs affecting Homegroups here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee617166%28v=ws.10%29.aspx

– TheUser1024 – 2012-11-01T20:30:56.683

The network location is already set to home, so that's not the case, but thanks for input. – Sebastian R – 2012-11-01T20:36:50.137

No further progress. – Sebastian R – 2012-11-03T06:02:56.317

Answers

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Turn on Network Discovery in Windows 7. Goto Control panel -> Administrative tools -> Services and see if 'Peer Networking Grouping' service is enabled and running.

Manoj Agarwal

Posted 2012-11-01T18:58:03.370

Reputation: 203