Homegroup sharing issues Windows 7

[Lord Pantaloons]

I having trouble transferring files between my two systems, I've enabled full control on all the drives on both PC's but I'm unable to transfer data from my main rig to my secondary rig. Any help would be appreciated and I would love for those who can help to jump onto the Unofficial LTT Teamspeak as that would be easier.

 

This is the crap I get when I try to transfer something from my main rig to my secondary rig

 

These are the settings that I've enabled on all of the drives(2TB HDD, 320GB HDD, 250GB HDD) I'm able to move things from my secondary rig to my main one but not the other way around.

 

Here is my offering to Lord Gaben

 

 

[SImoHayha]

did you get the new update from windows ? ? From what I heard its been causing all sorts of issues

[Lord Pantaloons]

did you get the new update from windows ? ? From what I heard its been causing all sorts of issues

One windows install is fully updated, the other is a fresh non updated one but I just figured out that it wasn't letting me transfer the data to twofold because the drive I was trying to transfer data to was the OS Drive. I can transfer stuff to the other drive in there and then just move it over so I guess this is solved.

[syntaxgeek]

So if you're not trying to copy files using an account that exists on the other box you need to give permission to Anonymous Users explicitly in my experience.

 

If you're trying to use home group then you need to right click the folder that will be the destination and hit sharing->read/modify (HomeGroup) or similar option.

 

The "everyone" group is a local group on the destination machine in question, so it's everyone that exists as a user on that specific machine, windows won't understand the account on the sender machine.

 

I just setup an account on all machines that I will be manipulating files on, pretty simple.

 

Also make sure windows doesn't have a cached permissions set for that path (in the event you've mounted it as a network share drive in the past), to remove old cached permissions:

 

1) start->run (or winkey+r), type CMD and hit enter/ok button

2) type net use, hit enter

3) find the path that has the cached credentials that are expired or incorrect

4) type net use \\path\that\doesn\tneed\to\be\cached\anymore /DELETE , hit enter

 

Try to access path again, this time it'll prompt for new credentials - use the updated/correct credentials.

 

Hopefully this helps you out.

 

PS:

 

Also if it's the homegroup that is messing up 95% of the time it's an issue with the two machines (sender, recepient) not having matching date/time in windows settings so check that too.