Re: Sharing a drive on differnet workgroups

Bob wrote:

> I have several gig on my work laptop that needs copying to my home
> desktop. The laptop runs XP Pro, and is set up for connection to my
> work's NT domain, named "XYZ". My home PC is a standalone unit running
> XP MCE, which was initially configured for a workgroup named "ABC".
>
> The two machines can ping each other, and even I can FTP between them.
>
> Is there a way for my home PC to access my laptop's shared drive?
> Using Explorer, I cannot connect to it specifying
> "\\XYZ\192.168.1.100" (192.168.1.100 being the IP Address is assigned
> to my laptop at home via DHCP)

Information from MVP Lanwench:
Note - you don't need to change to a workgroup just to access resources
on it. You shouldn't play with your laptop's network settings at all.
Once you've logged in using your domain account (using cached
credentials), and have an IP address on the home network, you can map
drives, use printers, whatnot, very easily - one way, in a command
line:

net use x: \\computername\sharename /user:computername\username <enter>

Also see:
MS KB article about the Net Use command - http://tinyurl.com/3bpnj

Managing One Windows XP-based Laptop for the Office and Home by MVP
Charlie Russel - http://tinyurl.com/cpy9q

http://winhlp.com/wxdomainworkgroup.htm - MVP Hans-Georg Michna

Malke
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