Associating computing devices with common credentials

One or more computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, perform a method for sharing resources between a plurality of computing devices associated with a common peer-to-peer network, the method comprising:

• receiving and storing a set of credentials, the set of credentials being common to two or more of a plurality of computing devices associated with a common peer-to-peer network and grouped in a common homegroup;
• requesting access to one or more resources, the one or more resources residing on or being associated with another computing device associated with the common peer-to-peer network, wherein a first computing device of the two or more computing devices includes a first resource shareable with a second computing device and a third computing device of the two or more computing devices and a second resource that is sharable with the second computing device and is explicitly selected as non-shareable to the third computing device;
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• accessing the one or more resources utilizing the common set of credentials and the common homegroup.

One or more computer storage media having computerexecutable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, perform a method for sharing resources between a plurality of computing devices associated with a common peer-to-peer network, the method comprising:

• storing a common set of credentials on two or more of the plurality of computing devices associated with the common peer-to-peer network, wherein the common peer-to-peer network does not contain a central server;
• grouping the two or more of the plurality of computing devices into a common homegroup, wherein the two or more of the plurality of computing devices grouped into a common homegroup utilize a peer-to-peer communication model;
• creating a local account on each of the two or more of the plurality of computing devices within the homegroup, wherein the local account contains the stored common set of credentials;
• sharing access to one or more resources, wherein the one or more resources reside on or are associated with at least one of the computing devices within the common homegroup, further wherein the one or more resources is comprised of a printer and a computer readable media;
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• allowing access to the one or more resources of the two or more of the plurality of computing devices grouped into the common homegroup utilizing the common set of credentials, wherein the access to the one or more resources is independent of a user entered username or a password, wherein a first computing device of the two or more of the plurality computing devices includes a first resource shareable with a second computing device and a third computing device of the two or more computing devices and a second resource that is sharable with the second computing device and is explicitly selected as non-shareable to the third computing device.