Do you use Homegroup?

The first time I tried it on Windows 7 I wasn'e able to connect from other PCs to my pc and I just liked me sharing folders that I want / settings permissions manually which is why I always cancel out when prompted to create a homegroup

What about you guys?

 

[MOVE]Nope.[/MOVE]

 

Couldnt even get it to work properly on my pc and laptop to try it.Kept on getting errors which i posted in another thread
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=328029

 

Nope. It's almost useless unless the entire "homegroup" uses Win7 exclusively. And it requires IPv6 and all of its ISATAP tunnel adapters to be enabled, which I also wanted to get rid of as unnecessary for my home set-up. So I dumped both of those frills. The normal workgroup sharing arrangements work fine without either.

Just in case others may be looking for instructions, see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929852 and
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/wi...group-from-windows-explorer-in-windows-7/3425

 

I tried to use it many many times before but it was weird, sometimes it would not configure, sometimes it would not show some PC's although they were on etc. So i stopped using it.
Too erratic.

 

If you ever watched the cyclical renewal handling of those ISATAP tunnel adapters in the system registry, you'd understand why. Or just run "ipconfig /all" to catch a quick glimpse of that part of the mess.

 

NO. Too much trouble using it. Some machines still have WinXP installed...

 

Yes. Haven't had a single problem with it.

 

No probs here either

 

I use it to share a printer between a W7 64bit desktop and a W7 32bit laptop. Works ok, though sometimes if the laptop has been asleep it needs to be rebooted before it can see the printer again.

 

I use it only to send Movies/Tv Shows and Photos to my DirecTV DVR.

 

Nope. Never liked Homegroup. It never worked correctly for me. Plus from what I have read (over at the Norton forums) it will not function correctly with any Firewall but the built in Windows firewall. I always set my location to "Work" so that it is disabled.

 

I use windows firewall so I guess that's one reason why it works for me.

 

Nope. Not only do I not join a Homegroup I have explicitly disabled the functionality to do so.

For me it was an unnecessary feature and was disabled as such.

 

How to disable it?

 

Go into Group Policy editor and go to:

Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Homegroup

and set "Prevent this computer from joining a HomeGroup" to Enabled.

if you'd like you can also disable the HomeGroup Listener and Provider services (Done under Services.msc).

I've done both and neither have caused ill effects (Though my computer use may be different from yours).