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mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Sep 12, 2017

The suggestion was to change the workgroup name to WORKGROUP (if this is the name of your workgroup). It needs to be the same workgroup that your PC is in.

 

Did you change any other settings?

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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Sep 12, 2017
mdgm wrote:

The suggestion was to change the workgroup name to WORKGROUP (if this is the name of your workgroup). It needs to be the same workgroup that your PC is in.

 

The Windows Homegroup is NOT the same as Windows Workgroup.

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