Cannot see the public folder in homegroup
I have a customer that has a shop laptop and an office desktop. He has quickbooks on both computers. The Office computer is where quickbooks files are kept (ie Public>public documents>intuit)
we had both computers set up as a homegroup and then the shop computer was map-networked to the public folder on the shop comptuter. Everything was working fine until last night when the customer took the laptop home. This morning, when he tried to re-connect, quickbooks could not find the quickbook files on the office computer. When I came there, the home group somehow had been removed on the shop computer and after getting home group going on that computer, I still could not see the public folder from the shop laptop. I can only see documents, pictures, music, & video files. What am i missing or doing wrong?
we had both computers set up as a homegroup and then the shop computer was map-networked to the public folder on the shop comptuter. Everything was working fine until last night when the customer took the laptop home. This morning, when he tried to re-connect, quickbooks could not find the quickbook files on the office computer. When I came there, the home group somehow had been removed on the shop computer and after getting home group going on that computer, I still could not see the public folder from the shop laptop. I can only see documents, pictures, music, & video files. What am i missing or doing wrong?
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Ok thanks for that info.
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I decided to try for a mapped drive, but when I selected the office computer it comes up asking for a user name and password. the thing is, the office computer has no password. so why is it asking for a password?
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Here is a picture of what I am getting
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Ok - I set the password and now I am able to get to the office computer, i still cannot see the puplic folder. it shows all the other folders but that one.
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I set a password on office computer, copied the QB files from the public folder to another folder in users account. Then, on the server computer, I mapped the drive to that folder. Now it all works great.
Thanks a bunch for helping me with this issue
Thanks a bunch for helping me with this issue
Thanks for the update and I was happy to help you with this.
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