Do Homegroups and network shares only work with wifi connections?

[sdsumike619]

I have a couple of computers in my basement, all were using wifi connections to the router and I have a mapped network drive, everything worked fine. Then I began having a lot of trouble with my Vonage device and they had me adjust a few things in the router, as well as use a wired ethernet connection for one computer going into the vonage device. I don't know exactly what they were doing.. Anyways, now that this computer is wired instead of wifi, I can no longer access the shared drive on the other computer. I have to disable the wired connection, enable the wifi, and then I can easily access it. Is there a way that I can access the network drive with a wired connection? I'm on Windows 7.. Thanks!

[aedipuss]

have you tried searching for it? start/network/ search in the upper right corner. the other thing to check would be if the wired and the wireless are both part of the same "workgroup" in my computer/properties

there is a good mix of wired and wireless devices here and they can all find the shared network stuff. win7, xp, 8.1, apple, android....

[sdsumike619]

well that's the thing, there's nothing to look for, everything remains the same, all I did was change from wifi to wired. When I click on the hard drive located in the computer in the other room, it doesn't come up anymore. Just seems strange that changing the connection to the router from wifi to wired would cause this to happen

[Nelson37]

It didn't, I could walk you through a series of steps which would restore the connection properly, but, since you don't respond to troubleshooting analysis, or offer any feedback, as I told you I would do, my only suggestion is..... Fix it yourself.

[sdsumike619]

Nelson, I don't follow your email.. What do you mean I didn't respond to troubleshooting analysis? "as I told you" ? You only replied once in this thread.
But yes, the workgroup is called HOME, it is the same on both computers. As I said before, the only thing that changed was that I disabled the wifi and used the wired connection to the router instead. Although I might not even keep it this way because I'm still having issues with Vonage so I have to call them back anyways.....

[svcdmaker]

I had a similar issue which I was never able to totally figure out. My problem was the reverse, when I connected over wifi I was some devices but not others. If I went through an access point (remote from the router) instead of the network cable I had an issue. Making the IP address static instead of using DHCP made a difference. It should not, but it did.

[Nelson37]

Go and check your thread on the problem with the HDMI connection to the monitor.

I spend my time and effort laying out a detailed course of action designed to Isolate and Identify the problem in order to resolve the issue. That was, apparently, a total waste of my time. So, I choose to identify and inform others of such individuals so as to allow them to proceed accordingly.

I remember Blinky88. Three pages of various people attempting to diagnose a problem finally got my favorite dumbass response of all time - " would it make a difference if, when first powering up the pc after installing the cpu, I saw sparks, smoke, and possibly actual flame erupting from the motherboard?" Why yes, yes it would.

That was over 10 years ago.

And yes, using static IP over DHCP is very often a solution to small network issues. Especially if a secondary DHCP server is creating a secondary network. Primarily, no DHCP server means that a failure of that unnecessary process does not bring your small network to a screeching halt.

[Krispy Kritter]

Delete the shared drive, reboot, and then remap it.

[Nelson37]

As noted here and in another thread, the OP will not provide feedback and will not respond with results. Others may choose to waste their time with such an individual, but I will not.

To each their own.

I will remember this username till hell freezes over or about 10-15 years from now, when i will make an effort to provide feedback on the first possibility.

[Bjs]

mapped network drive

Router is dhcp server, assign static ip's on router and on all systems if using mapped drives ... this provides stability

Any other method is a waste of time.

I'm done.