In this case I'm working with two PC's . PC3 & PC2. Both are on the same Workgroup and were joined to a HomeGroup. PC3 has files that I'd like to share with my wife on PC2. There are other people on the network that shouldn't have access to these files. We both (Mike & Beth) have accounts on both computers with the same password on each. I initially tried to share just granting Mike & Beth permission using the Sharing Wizard hoping that would work since we were both on the Home group and had the same passwords. No joy. I then did some reading and found that if I linked password using Windows Live that I could better structure the permissions. I did so and now Windows Live Mike and Beth can see the Files but can't write or delete. Beth actually has trouble opening Excel spreadsheets even though she can see them. Advanced options showed that both the regular accounts and the Windows Live versions had full control. I turned off the Sharing Wizard thinking that maybe the simple sharing was overriding the advanced, but that didn't change the situation. I have tried turning on and off "Password Protected Sharing" and changing the settings under "Homegroup Connections" in Advanced Sharing Settings. The only thing I've found that would work is to share the files with Homegroup with the Sharing Wizard. That defeats the purpose of permissions. Any help is appreciated, Mike

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DMBrew wrote: In this case I'm working with two PC's . PC3 & PC2. Both are on the same Workgroup and were joined to a HomeGroup. PC3 has files that I'd like to share with my wife on PC2. There are other people on the network that shouldn't have access to these files. We both (Mike & Beth) have accounts on both computers with the same password on each. I initially tried to share just granting Mike & Beth permission using the Sharing Wizard hoping that would work since we were both on the Home group and had the same passwords. No joy. I then did some reading and found that if I linked password using Windows Live that I could better structure the permissions. I did so and now Windows Live Mike and Beth can see the Files but can't write or delete. Beth actually has trouble opening Excel spreadsheets even though she can see them. Advanced options showed that both the regular accounts and the Windows Live versions had full control. I turned off the Sharing Wizard thinking that maybe the simple sharing was overriding the advanced, but that didn't change the situation. I have tried turning on and off "Password Protected Sharing" and changing the settings under "Homegroup Connections" in Advanced Sharing Settings.  The only thing I've found that would work is to share the files with Homegroup with the Sharing Wizard. That defeats the purpose of permissions. Any help is appreciated, Mike Are you and your wife administrators of your PCs? If yes, then you most probably are faced with UAC remote restrictions. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951016/en-us which will possibly help in this situation. (Although not mentioned, you need to reboot after changing the settings, to get it to work). It is for Vista but works equally for Win7. Wolfgang

Hi Mike, Before going further, would you please let me know what error message is received when trying to access files. To share the files to a specific person, you can choose the folder and click Share with button in the toolbar from Windows Explorer. Please also add the following settings about the shared folder. Please right click folder -> Properties -> Advance Sharing -> check Share this folder, click Permission -> add your wife's account and click Ok. Go to Security Tab and also add the accounts. Regards, NikiPlease remember to click "Mark as Answer" on the post that helps you, and to click "Unmark as Answer" if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Thanks for the response. Until this morning, I was an administrator and my wife was a limited user. I needed to upgrade her because we have Office 2003 on that box and it won't run as a limited user so I did that this morning. I checked the registry for the value in the article and it was not present so I added it and restarted the computer. Still no luck. See the next response for more info. Thanks for the idea, I'm about ready to try anything.

Thanks for the response Wolfgang, Until this morning, I was an administrator and my wife was a limited user. I needed to upgrade her because we have Office 2003 on that box and it won't run as a limited user so I did that this morning. I checked the registry for the value in the article and it was not present so I added it and restarted the computer. Still no luck. See the next response for more info. Thanks for the idea, I'm about ready to try anything.

Hi Niki, Both of us can see all of the files. I just tried to modify a spread sheet and it gave me this error: "**** is read only. To save a copy click OK, then give the workbook a new name." If I try to do that and save it in the same folder, I get: "Cannot save M:\Our documents\**** The folder is marked as read only. The root of the drive is shared to Everybody and the folder in question is Shared to both Mike and Beth as well as Windows Live linked Mike and Beth. I generally access the Share feature that you describe by right clicking but it goes to the same place. In that box all users described have Read/Write access. "> Properties -> Advance Sharing -> check Share this folder, click Permission ->" This piece I had been missing. I've added Mike and Beth there with full permissions. I was unable to add Windows Live linked Mike and Beth. Those passwords are linked on both computers. I was not able to write to the drive after doing this. "Go to Security Tab and also add the accounts. " Mike & Beth as well as the linked Passwords are shown on this screen with full control for each of them and have been most of the time I've been trying this. I really don't understand the hierarchy of how these three screens work together, but I guess I don't need to as long as they all work. Unfortunately they don't. I do appreciate the ideas and I'll keep trying till I find something that works, but I need new ideas, I'm fresh out of things to try. Thanks, Mike

DMBrew wrote: Thanks for the response. Until this morning, I was an administrator and my wife was a limited user. I needed to upgrade her because we have Office 2003 on that box and it won't run as a limited user so I did that this morning. I checked the registry for the value in the article and it was not present so I added it and restarted the computer. Still no luck. See the next response for more info. Thanks for the idea, I'm about ready to try anything. If you want to use user and password restricted access it is necessary to turn off homegroup networking. Set your network to a workplace (or workgroup - or whatever that is named in English - as I don't have an English version up in the moment) network and set your sharing properties to use username and password instead of homegroup networking connections. And remove your PCs from the homegroup. Then in advanced sharing mode you have to share your shared file-directories explicitly to the other user and set his security to full control or read-write. If that does not help disable the firewall completely on both PCs and see if that helps. Wolfgang

I have previously turned off Homegroup on both computers and had the Firewall off on PC3, but I tried it again and turned off the firewall on PC2 as well. IT didn't do any good. I still cannot write to the folder from PC2. I also changed the workgroup name just to try something and I checked that they are both set to "homenetwork" That didn't do any good either. Thanks for the effort. Any other ideas would be appreciated. Mike

DMBrew wrote: I have previously turned off Homegroup on both computers and had the Firewall off on PC3, but I tried it again and turned off the firewall on PC2 as well.  IT didn't do any good. I still cannot write to the folder from PC2. So users from PC3 can write to their allowed shares on PC2, but users cannot do the same from PC2 to PC3? If that's true you have to look deeper into the configuration differences between those 2 PCs.   I also changed the workgroup name just to try something and I checked that they are both set to "homenetwork" That didn't do any good either. That has to be changed to workplace network, to get fully advanced sharing possiblilties. Thanks for the effort. Any other ideas would be appreciated.   Mike     Wolfgang

Wolfgang, There were no files on PC2 that we need to access. I try to keep everything centralized on PC3. Your suggestion to change to a workplace network resolved the problem! I have read many things over the past week and I have never even seen that setting mentioned. and its use is not well documented. I didn't even have to reboot or log out. Your help is greatly appreciated and I hope that you have a well deserved Bier this evening! Thanks again, Mike

DMBrew wrote: Wolfgang, There were no files on PC2 that we need to access. I try to keep everything centralized on PC3. Your suggestion to change to a workplace network resolved the problem! I have read many things over the past week and I have never even seen that setting mentioned. and its use is not well documented. I didn't even have to reboot or log out. Your help is greatly appreciated and I hope that you have a well deserved Bier this evening! Thanks again, Mike Good to hear - glad, that you got it working! Regards Wolfgang

Wolfgang, I signed up just to reply to your thread. You have solved an issue I have been dealing with for a long time. I am not sure why file sharing has been turned in to something so convoluted with Windows 7. Also, I can't understand why there is such little documentation available and other people that have posted this issue get a more or less boiler plate response from Microsoft support personnel, but thank you a lot. Changing all of my computers to the "Work Network" instead of "Home Network" made it work beautifully! -Vic

Just to keep up with your status: - have you checked your IPv6 status (must be activated) the following services must also be started and running; - HomeGroup Listener - HomeGroup Provider - Peer Networking Resolution Protocol - Peer Networking Grouping - Peer Networking Identity Manager ...all of those are the minimum I think to get HomeGroup networking to function. Hope this points you in the correct direction.