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From: Justin Thompson (Justin.Thompson_at_ntlworld.com)
Date: 02/16/04 

Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 00:33:09 +0000

Hi,

Apologies of this is a stupid question - I am new here.

I have a work machine which has recently been migrated to AD. Before
it was in AD I could bring it home- plug it in to me local network and
share files etc (easier to work on files on my home computer than my
work laptop - better screen and full mouse etc).

Anyway - now my laptop is in an AD domain at work - I sign on with
cached credentials at home and although my local machine has a open
share called "dropbox" , I cant see it via my work machine.

My home network is a win98Se machine which just acts as a dropbox, my
main work is done on my main home machine - whcih is WinXP Pro - which
is also kept very secure.

So my question - why cant I drop and pick up files from my work
machine to the Win98SE machine open share dropbox folder?

Just FYI - home network is a Broadband connection shated via an
SMC7004ABR router - Win98se and WinXPpro are in same "workgroup" - so
not in domain.

Sorry if I have not explained the porblem well - let me know if you
need more info.

Hope you can help since I am sure this is not an uncommon scenario -
so hopefully there is a simple solution.

TIA and best regards