Vista Home Basic workgroup ?

[Grover]

wife's old computer bit dust - lightning strike?

Anyway, new one has Vista Home Basic

Need to change default Workgroup to my own for sharing on our home
network..... it discovered shared machines, and printers, but I cannot
see new machine from others in the original workgroup.

Google'ing and looking at Vista Help for hints on how to do this
produce strange results.... no obvious way to change from default
workgroup "WORKGROUP" - in sharing wants DNS Suffix, with no other
options.

New macine is a few hours old, and am tempted to nuke it and go back
to XP.....

Appreciate any help.

Grov "Vista newbie"

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

Follow this path..

Control Panel - System - Advanced System Settings - 'Computer name' tab -
'Change' button..

wife's old computer bit dust - lightning strike?

Anyway, new one has Vista Home Basic

Need to change default Workgroup to my own for sharing on our home
network..... it discovered shared machines, and printers, but I cannot
see new machine from others in the original workgroup.

Google'ing and looking at Vista Help for hints on how to do this
produce strange results.... no obvious way to change from default
workgroup "WORKGROUP" - in sharing wants DNS Suffix, with no other
options.

New macine is a few hours old, and am tempted to nuke it and go back
to XP.....

Appreciate any help.

Grov "Vista newbie"

--


Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/

 

[Grover]

Thanks Mike, but no such setting available - Control Panel - System
ok, but no Advanced System Settings......

Computer Name section has a Chage Settings "button", but goes to sytem
properties, with tabs = Computer Name, Hardware, Advanced, System
Protection, Remote...

Advanced goes to choices of Performance, User Profiles, Startup and
Recovery buttons. No "change workgroup name" option in sight!

Where's my XP disks......

Grov

 

[Grover]

Mike - It's Vista Basic - part of the problem?

Grov

 

[Nepatsfan]

In

wife's old computer bit dust - lightning strike?

Anyway, new one has Vista Home Basic

Need to change default Workgroup to my own for sharing on our
home
network..... it discovered shared machines, and printers, but
I cannot
see new machine from others in the original workgroup.

Google'ing and looking at Vista Help for hints on how to do
this
produce strange results.... no obvious way to change from
default
workgroup "WORKGROUP" - in sharing wants DNS Suffix, with no
other
options.

New macine is a few hours old, and am tempted to nuke it and
go back
to XP.....

Appreciate any help.

Grov "Vista newbie"

In Control Panel, double click System.
In the left hand column, click on Advanced System Settings.
Note: You can also click on Change Settings in the "Computer
name, domain, and workgroup settings" section.
This should launch System Properties.
On the Computer Name page, click on the Change button which is
next to "To rename this computer or change its domain or
workgroup, click Change".
In Computer Name/Domain Changes, click in the box under
Workgroup and enter the name of your workgroup.
Click OK twice.
Close any open windows and restart your computer.

Good luck

Nepatsfan

 

[Grover]

Thanks - but there is no box under Workgroup! the only box is under
computer name - "More". and under that is only "primary DNS
suffix........."

Grov

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

When you double click the 'settings', icon in Control panel, do you not get
the Task window that shows Windows version, rating, RAM installed, domain
and workgroup settings?

Mike - It's Vista Basic - part of the problem?

Grov

--


Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/

 

[noaim]

right click on computer and hit properties a box pops up with some options
on the left side of the screen one of the options is advanced system
settings. This brings up a box with a tab named computer name. Click on
that tab

then click on the change button

once that dialog pops up you can change the workgroup that the computer is
in

 

[Grover]

If you mean Control Panel > System > Settings, yes I do see those;
Under Computer name, Domain, and Workgroup settings I see the computer
name, full computer name, computer description, and Workgrooup.
Workgroup is set to "Workgroup" - I need to change that to the
workgroup my other 2 machines are on.

When I click the "Change Settings" button, it opens a window titled
"Settings", with tabs Computer Name, Hardware, Advanced, System
Protection, Remote. All I can change there is the computer
description.

Thanks for your continuing help!

Grov

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

The Workgroup box should be highlighted (button showing blue) and presently
read 'Workgroup'.. if it is not grayed out, just overtype your network
name..

If you mean Control Panel > System > Settings, yes I do see those;
Under Computer name, Domain, and Workgroup settings I see the computer
name, full computer name, computer description, and Workgrooup.
Workgroup is set to "Workgroup" - I need to change that to the
workgroup my other 2 machines are on.

When I click the "Change Settings" button, it opens a window titled
"Settings", with tabs Computer Name, Hardware, Advanced, System
Protection, Remote. All I can change there is the computer
description.

Thanks for your continuing help!

Grov

--


Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/

 

[Grover]

No workgroup button - the line looks like

Workgroup: WORKGROUP


I can hilight it, but cannot type over it

The only button is to the right of the line:

To rename this computer, click Change [CHANGE]

That's the only button in the box.

Grov

 

[Nepatsfan]

First off, the way this is going, it may be simpler to change
the workgroup name on your XP systems to Workgroup.

If you still want to change the Vista workgroup name, try this;

Click on the Start Orb on the taskbar and enter the following
in the Search box.

SystemPropertiesAdvanced.exe

Hit the Enter key.
Click on Continue in the User Account Control dialog.
This should launch the System Properties sheet. Check the title
at the top.
Click on the Computer Name tab.
Click on the Change button next to where it says "To rename
this computer. click Change".
This should open a dialog titled Computer Name Changes.
There should be a box at the bottom named Workgroup where you
can enter the desired workgroup name.

Good luck

Nepatsfan


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[Kurt Herman]

Did you try clicking the rename this computer button? This opens up another
window where you can change the name AND the workgroup. (Weren't you curious
about what that button did, regardless of what the text said?)

Kurt

No workgroup button - the line looks like

Workgroup: WORKGROUP


I can hilight it, but cannot type over it

The only button is to the right of the line:

To rename this computer, click Change [CHANGE]

That's the only button in the box.

Grov

The Workgroup box should be highlighted (button showing blue) and
presently
read 'Workgroup'.. if it is not grayed out, just overtype your network
name..

 

[Grover]

Bingo!

I had looked at that next screen, but there are no buttons in the
workgroup section, so I never tried hilighting it and typing my
workgroup name... seems that usually there is an action button of some
sort, or a simple little line that says "To change the name of the
Workgroup, type the new name on top of the old".

Thanks a million guys!

Grov

Did you try clicking the rename this computer button? This opens up another
window where you can change the name AND the workgroup. (Weren't you curious
about what that button did, regardless of what the text said?)

Kurt

No workgroup button - the line looks like

Workgroup: WORKGROUP


I can hilight it, but cannot type over it

The only button is to the right of the line:

To rename this computer, click Change [CHANGE]

That's the only button in the box.

Grov

The Workgroup box should be highlighted (button showing blue) and
presently
read 'Workgroup'.. if it is not grayed out, just overtype your network
name..


If you mean Control Panel > System > Settings, yes I do see those;
Under Computer name, Domain, and Workgroup settings I see the computer
name, full computer name, computer description, and Workgrooup.
Workgroup is set to "Workgroup" - I need to change that to the
workgroup my other 2 machines are on.

When I click the "Change Settings" button, it opens a window titled
"Settings", with tabs Computer Name, Hardware, Advanced, System
Protection, Remote. All I can change there is the computer
description.

Thanks for your continuing help!

Grov

On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 20:22:03 -0400, "Mike Hall - MVP"

When you double click the 'settings', icon in Control panel, do you not
get
the Task window that shows Windows version, rating, RAM installed,
domain
and workgroup settings?


Mike - It's Vista Basic - part of the problem?

Grov

On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 16:41:07 -0400, "Mike Hall - MVP"

Follow this path..

Control Panel - System - Advanced System Settings - 'Computer name'
tab -
'Change' button..


wife's old computer bit dust - lightning strike?

Anyway, new one has Vista Home Basic

Need to change default Workgroup to my own for sharing on our home
network..... it discovered shared machines, and printers, but I
cannot
see new machine from others in the original workgroup.

Google'ing and looking at Vista Help for hints on how to do this
produce strange results.... no obvious way to change from default
workgroup "WORKGROUP" - in sharing wants DNS Suffix, with no other
options.

New macine is a few hours old, and am tempted to nuke it and go back
to XP.....

Appreciate any help.

Grov "Vista newbie"