Help - Getting Work Laptop to Connect to Home Network

From: Garrett Sinclair (garrettsinclair_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/14/04 

Date: 14 Aug 2004 16:44:10 -0700

Any and all suggestions are appreciated.

At the end of the day, I am hoping to be able to use file and printer
sharing with my work laptop and my home network PCs. I already have
figured out getting wireless internet up and going, so that is not an
issue. (Note: I have a DSL modem and a wireless internet router
connecting 3 PCs total - 2 home and 1 work laptop.)

My work laptop domain name is MRC and it is running XP Pro. I have
already set my home networked PCs to have each have a workgroup name
of MRC and these "home PCs" are running XP Home.

The 2 home PCs are running print and file sharing perfectly in the
"Shared Folders" area of "My Network Places" - but they are not
"viewable" to each other when I click on "View Workgroup Computers."

I am able to "ping" the home PCs to my work laptop and vice versa
(using the ping command) and that works perfectly. So I know the
computers can "see" each other over the home network.

What is NOT working is that the when I click my way through Network
Neighborhood on my work laptop and get to the MRC domain and double
click it - nothing happens and eventually I get some sort of error
message. I also hit a dead end when I try to find the printer
connecting to one of my home PCs (though the other home PC can find it
easily.)

I do not have permission to reset my work laptop to a "workgroup mode"
and then reset it to a domain mode later. I must live with the domain
name (MRC) they have given me.

Any ideas on how I can fix this?

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