Home Network problem

papadan · Jul 28, 2014

O.K. I think I found something I didn't notice before. In the network profiles for a home network there is an option to turn on or off file & printer sharing. Each time I click on turn on file & printer sharing & click save changes it goes back to turned off. I can't seem to get it to stay on.
I'm working on that.

ATMINSIDE · Jul 28, 2014

papadan said:
O.K. I think I found something I didn't notice before. In the network profiles for a home network there is an option to turn on or off file & printer sharing. Each time I click on turn on file & printer sharing & click save changes it goes back to turned off. I can't seem to get it to stay on.
I'm working on that.

That definitely sounds like it would be the issue.

Are your network connections set to Home, Work, or Public?

papadan · Jul 28, 2014

ATMINSIDE said:
That definitely sounds like it would be the issue.

Are your network connections set to Home, Work, or Public?

They're both set to Home. I've been trying to get it to set to on but it won't. I'm about ready to do a clean install on that drive.

ATMINSIDE · Jul 28, 2014

papadan said:
They're both set to Home. I've been trying to get it to set to on but it won't. I'm about ready to do a clean install on that drive.

Check this for a solution:
http://www.sevenforums.com/network-sharing/120835-network-discovery-won-t-stay-ticked.html

papadan · Jul 29, 2014

ATMINSIDE said:
Check this for a solution:
http://www.sevenforums.com/network-sharing/120835-network-discovery-won-t-stay-ticked.html

Hi, we have a winner. Most everything was O.K. on both computers but for one thing. Workstation on computer 1 was disabled (don't know how it got that way) wouldn't have been me because I believe that was the first time I've ever been in there.

Things are working pretty good now but still not great. I believe now it is with my sharing & I will work on that. Have learned a lot with this, THANKS :salute:

ATMINSIDE · Jul 29, 2014

Glad it's (mostly) working!

Is the issue now with speeds?

Silver_Pharaoh · Jul 29, 2014

ATMINSIDE said:
Glad it's (mostly) working!

Is the issue now with speeds?

Do go on, I get at most 5Mb/s on a good day over cat5

ATMINSIDE · Jul 29, 2014

Silver_Pharaoh said:
Do go on, I get at most 5Mb/s on a good day over cat5

5Mb/s or 5MB/s?
Which revision of CAT5 are you using? I get ~100MB/s, as I'm maxing out my Gigabit network.

Silver_Pharaoh · Jul 29, 2014

ATMINSIDE said:
5Mb/s or 5MB/s?
Which revision of CAT5 are you using? I get ~100MB/s, as I'm maxing out my Gigabit network.

Not sure exactly, but I've never had more than 8MB/s. No gigbit though... router is only fast ethernet..

I'll get more details when I get home.

papadan · Jul 29, 2014

ATMINSIDE said:
Glad it's (mostly) working!

Is the issue now with speeds?

No, it's that it won't let me access some folders that are shared & I can't get some folders to be shared. Some of the problems is that it comes up & says I don't have permissions.

ATMINSIDE · Jul 29, 2014

Silver_Pharaoh said:
Not sure exactly, but I've never had more than 8MB/s. No gigbit though... router is only fast ethernet..

I'll get more details when I get home.

If your router/modem/switch is only 10/100 that's the speed limitation. You'll need Gigabit to get more than 12MB/s, but that's the theoretically perfect number for 100Mbps.

papadan said:
No, it's that it won't let me access some folders that are shared & I can't get some folders to be shared. Some of the problems is that it comes up & says I don't have permissions.

I'm assuming this is an OS drive you're sharing?

papadan · Jul 29, 2014

I'm assuming this is an OS drive you're sharing?
Yes

ATMINSIDE · Jul 29, 2014

papadan said:
I'm assuming this is an OS drive you're sharing?
Yes

I expect the folders you're having issues with are something the OS has locked down, such as Program Files?

When you try to get to one of these folders, does it prompt for a Username/Password?

If it does, put in the Username/Password for the machine you're trying to access, not the machine you're currently using.

papadan · Jul 29, 2014

ATMINSIDE said:
I expect the folders you're having issues with are something the OS has locked down, such as Program Files?

When you try to get to one of these folders, does it prompt for a Username/Password?

If it does, put in the Username/Password for the machine you're trying to access, not the machine you're currently using.

Sometimes it does ask for this but I don't have passwords created. The problem is that something is creating a credential & putting it in the vault with a password & I have no idea what it is. I just go in & delete the credential & it is o.k. until the next time it shows up again.

ATMINSIDE · Jul 29, 2014

papadan said:
Sometimes it does ask for this but I don't have passwords created. The problem is that something is creating a credential & putting it in the vault with a password & I have no idea what it is. I just go in & delete the credential & it is o.k. until the next time it shows up again.

Honestly, I've never tried this on a machine without a password.
Did you disable the option for password protected sharing?

papadan · Jul 29, 2014

ATMINSIDE said:
Honestly, I've never tried this on a machine without a password.
Did you disable the option for password protected sharing?

Yes I did, I'm going to try & create a password & go from there to see how it works.

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