Re: Home Network Printer Sharing

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John

BK wrote:

I agree that I do not want to "add a network connection" and change the laptop's settings from work. The laptop has no problem connecting via the wireless router to our home network so that he can have web access. The only thing that doesn't seem to be working like it did on his old laptop is that he cannot print from his new laptop to our home printer.

Any specific places I should be looking on his new laptop for boxes to check???



"John John" <audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:unbcfjngHHA.2640@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

*DON'T* change the laptop's network settings and *do* *not* try to join the laptop to your home network! If you do the laptop will be disjoined from the work domain and the trust relationship with the domain will be destroyed! After that your husband will not be able to reconnect to his work domain and the only way he will be able to logon to the laptop will be by logging on with the built-in administrator account. To rejoin the domain your husband will then have to ask the domain administrator to rejoin the laptop to the domain.

Your husband can use the home network's resources by connecting to them with the NET USE command, or you can rename the home network to match the domain's name. See here: http://www.chicagotech.net/workgroupnet.htm

Many companies have policies that allow employees to use their laptops at home. If the company allows this your husband should asks the guys in the IT department for help and advice.

John

BK wrote:


I tried searching "network places" and our home network did not show up. So I have to add a new network connection to the laptop? My husband's new laptop was set up at work and was joined to the domain and the network there. If I add a new network connection to our home network, will that interfere with his work related stuff?





"Don Schmidt" <Don Retired Engineer@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:132dk5511nnqpbc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Try searching your "Network Places".


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Don
Quid pro quo.


"BK" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ubXlOphgHHA.284@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Using XP-Media Edition.

We have set up a home network and have a wireless router. Everything is working perfectly with our daughter's system in her room and with my husband's laptop when he brings it home from work. Everyone can print to the printer that is connected to our desktop system.

My husband just got a new laptop. He can connect to the network via the wireless router, but we cannot seem to connect him to the printer. Have we just forgotten how to do that?? When we try to "add a printer" and do a search, we do not have the option to "search for available printers." What steps do we need to take to enable him to print from his new laptop via the wireless network connection like he used to be able to do on his old laptop?







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