On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:21:08 +0100, "Mortimer" wrote:

"...winston" wrote in message
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Correct.

I've seen both. Users with Homegroups and those without. If only one pc,
then Homegroup isn't really a variable.



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"Char Jackson" wrote in message
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On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:54:09 -0400, "...winston"
I believe you mean to replace 'network' with 'Homegroup', right? As
in, "Home Basic is only capable of joining a Homegroup. Home Premium
is able to create and join a Homegroup."

Since most people don't use the Homegroup feature, (in my experience),
this isn't a serious limitation.

I've found Homegroups to be a major retrograde step and I've set up my
networked PCs to use "old fashioned" XP/Vista style networking, with
servernames and sharenames (\\servername\sharename\folder1\folder2 etc).

I tried the Homegroups feature with a couple of Win 7 machines and it
worked perfectly. Very easy to set up and use. Absolutely no problems
at all. Of course, the trouble comes if you want to add an XP machine,
so you're right back at 'old school' networking. You can do both, of
course, but I figured why bother.

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Char Jackson