Creating a home network - need advice

Scougar

Scougar

Scougar

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Hi,

I'm sure I'm one of many, that want to create a home network easily, but MS screwed that up with the removal of homegroups. Why did they have to make it so frigging difficult (Cos they want monies - obviously, for their cloud agenda - but anyway...)

What are my options here? I actually want a LAN, not just file sharing, so I can play LAN games.

Currently I have at least 2 hard wired PC's for gaming, and at least one other laptop I wouldn't mind connecting via wifi.
 
homegroups were the most confusing useless feature ever. All they did is make it more complicated. If you plug both pcs into the same physical network, and give them both an ip address on the same logical network, then that's all you have to do.

Your PC is likely already on a lan becuase I guess you have internet via a router.

in this case you probably will have it working just becuase you'll be getting a dhcp lease. To find out your ip address open a command prompt and type "ipconfig /all" minus the quotes
 
What are you struggling to do?

Plug it in, turn on file and printer sharing, share the relevant folders and printers, and it should just work.

Homegroups was distracting to use and hardly ever worked correctly. 99.9999% of home users just want to plug in and have all their stuff talk to each other. It’s rare that you would want to create separate groups on networks which have a handful of devices on them. Commercial customers wouldn’t use the feature.
 
If you want to share some files use Dropbox or google drive that also gives you a backup, unsure what else you are trying to do.. Never used ms home networks before I usually just give all server machine a static ip and share the drive.. Don't try and share drives on all machines it will be a nightmare
 
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