Wni8 not reading Win7 ??

oceancntyguy08005

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4 pc's. 1 win8, 3 win7 and 1 win8 laptop. Win8's not able to access win7 drives, or each others drives but sees them in network. Win7 drives access each others but not win8's.
Had win8's accessing 1 win7 pc's drives.
Added 2 new drives to win7, win8's cant access new drives.
Everything left homegroup, rejoined home group and rebooted everything. NOW situation is worse, win8's dont access squat. ?
All drives in network have permissions to admin, everyone, home group user$, home user, and user.
I need these pc's accessing each other, running 2 emby servers and transfer GB of files and folders everyday.
HELP
 

boju

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Not sure about how win8 does things but for me with win7 ive always goten rid of home group on all pcs and never had a problem. In a home on one network theres no point to homegroup anyway.

Assuming you've shared your drives.
 

oceancntyguy08005

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every drive is shared with permissions for , everyone admin admins home group users$ home users users.
the 2 win8 pc's saw 1 emby pc and accessed those drives but wont access the 2 new drives.
why ? WTH ??

This is a big issue, i cant get all pc's upto win8 if they cant access each others drives.