Windows 10 April update - No More Home Group.

[ibr_remote]

Windows 10 April update - No More Home Group. If you need to transfer files between computers (like I do), you need to use Bluetooth. Make sure both machines have the "Bluetooth & other Devices" window open ( access it through the "PC Settings" screen ). When you tell your PC to look for your other PC, it will generate a code which can only be viewed when the "Bluetooth & Other Devices" window is open.

 

[seachnasaigh]

Will network renderers (Lux, HyperVue, Poser Pro's Queue Manager) no longer work?

 

[Sunfire]

Should still have networking capabilities even if the homegroup is gone. (Which usually caused me nothing but headaches anyway so rarely used it.) So the network rendering should still work, I would think.

 

[ibr_remote]

Will network renderers (Lux, HyperVue, Poser Pro's Queue Manager) no longer work?

I can't find how to use those, but the shared folders are still shared, except, can't get them to show on other PC. Grrr.

 

[ibr_remote]

If anyone figures out how to do it besides using Bluetooth, please share ! Thanks !

 

[Sunfire]

How is your network set up? Is it wireless? Wired?

 

[ibr_remote]

How is your network set up? Is it wireless? Wired?

wireless (so far, managed to transfer files via bluetooth, but clumsy to go through so many steps)

 

[Sunfire]

In your windows explorer, you should have a something called Network, you may have to activate it... I just did on my new laptop, but it will have access to your shared folders, or should.

 

[ibr_remote]

In your windows explorer, you should have a something called Network, you may have to activate it... I just did on my new laptop, but it will have access to your shared folders, or should.

Noted, will try it. Thanks !

 

[sapat]

Wonder how this is going to affect ppl like me. My husband has Win 10 and bluetooth on his laptop, and I have a 4 yr old desktop running Windows 8.1, and I don't have bluetooth capability. Wonder if that means we won't be able to drag and drop files to each other over our wireless network anymore.

 

[ibr_remote]

Wonder how this is going to affect ppl like me. My husband has Win 10 and bluetooth on his laptop, and I have a 4 yr old desktop running Windows 8.1, and I don't have bluetooth capability. Wonder if that means we won't be able to drag and drop files to each other over our wireless network anymore.

Looks like you may need a trusty external thumb drive...

 

[sapat]

Looks like you may need a trusty external thumb drive...

You may be right. I told my husband about the info in the thread yesterday and he said after his computer finished doing updates yesterday, it removed Homegroup from his computer. So yeah, either thumb drive, OneDrive or Dropbox I guess. Dang Microsoft.

 

[seachnasaigh]

Have you actually tried to copy a file from computer A to computer B?

All of my active machines are Win7, so I can't verify/disprove anything.

If anyone has Poser Pro, can you send render jobs off to the remote computer via Queue Manager, and get finished render jobs back?

Lux is free, will network render, and comes with two sample scenes. If you have Reality or just the Lux render engine, are you able to network render one of the sample scenes?

Another means of checking intranet connectivity is using Vue Infinite's HyperVue network renderer with RenderCow installed on the remote computer(s).

 

[sapat]

Have you actually tried to copy a file from computer A to computer B?
All of my active machines are Win7, so I can't verify/disprove anything.

No. He just told me this yesterday afternoon and we didn't have time to get into it then, and today he's gone all day. So likely it will be Thursday when he's off work.

 

[Sunfire]

He should still have Network, even if homegroup is gone. And you can transfer files that way. I've never relied on homegroup because it has never worked reliably for me, but Network always has.

 

[seachnasaigh]

Thank you @Sunfire ; that is what I suspect to be the case. If I build another workstation and if I run it on Windows, I would guess it will be Win10, since the more recent hardware -not new, can't afford that, but not as old as what I have now- will not be able to use all of its features on Win7.

 

[phdubrov]

Basically what @Sunfire said:
My home network works from the start without Homegroup on Win7.
Probably you should explicitly configure the shares (right-click on folder - properties - access in W7) and maybe firewall rules.
The network is behind the firewall, so marked as home (trusted). Lux works without additional fiddling.

 

[seachnasaigh]

@phdubrov I have Poser Queue, HyperVue, and Reality/Lux networking on my Win7 machines, and can/do often send files from one machine to another via network.
My concern is whether that will work if I build a Win10 workstation and add it to my network.
I use Poser's Queue most often, but sometimes I use Vue and Lux:

 

[sapat]

He should still have Network, even if homegroup is gone. And you can transfer files that way. I've never relied on homegroup because it has never worked reliably for me, but Network always has.

Yes we still have the home network. I'll ask him about it and maybe we can just drag and drop files from each others Documents folders. Thanks!

 

[Sunfire]

Make sure to share the folders and you should be able to.