RE: Domain and Workgroup

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System app in Control Panel, Advanced tab, Environmental variable button,
systen vars, New button.

You use the "%" delimiter to express the variable. I would try %mygroup, or
maybe %mygroup%

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Mark L. Ferguson



"Lenny" wrote:

Thanks again. You have now gone past my knowledge. Can you point me to an
article or something that can show me how to set up and use global variables?

"Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:

Well, I've not tried it, but what about using an environmental variable
storing the longer workgroup name (%myGroup%)
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"Lenny" wrote:

Thank you Mark. I actually had thought of that, but the domain name is
longer than what Vista allows in the workgroup field. I tried truncating the
".com" off and that didn't work. I also tried using only the root part of
the domain - the part that is the company's primary web address and that
didn't work.

I presume, based on the wizards and knowledge base articles I have read that
a user on a computer can only belong to a domain or a workgroup. I would
also guess that if I set up a different user profile, it could be part of the
workgroup. However, that would mean logging off and on each time I want to
switch the way I am working, defeating the purpose.

I was hoping that given that the machines could ping each other, that there
was some way of setting up a network resource or "something" where I could
specify the IP address of the Vista computer, and from there see the drives
on it.

Maybe there is some other way. I am out of ideas.

L

"Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:

Try naming the workgroup the same name as the domain.

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"Lenny" wrote:

I have a laptop that is configured for my office domain.

I also have a home network that has a workgroup.

I would really like to be able to access the storage on other computers from
my laptop, but can't figure out how to do that without disabling the domain.

If it matters, the computer I most want to access is Vista, not XP. But the
laptop is XP pro.

I can ping the computers from each other while on my home wireless network.

Any ideas?
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