Re: Help - Getting Work Laptop to Connect to Home Network

From: Luke (lbowes|removethis|_at_palitra-art.com)
Date: 08/15/04 

Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 05:12:57 -0700

Hi Garrett,
With regards to getting your two PC's sharing properly please try the
following on both PC's:
Can you just check whether the LAN connections on the computers are
bridged (on both computers);
1. Open network connections
2. Check whether there is a network connection that is shown as a
bridge icon.
3. I there is then disable it and then delete it.
If that doesn't work then please try the following:
Check to see if Simple File Sharing (Control Panel - Folder Options -
View - Advanced settings) is enabled or disabled.
For XP Home with Simple File Sharing enabled, make sure that the Guest
account is enabled, thru Local User Manager (Start - Run -
"lusrmgr.msc"), on each computer. Do any of the computers have a
software firewall (ICF or third party)? If so, you need to configure
them for file sharing, by opening ports TCP 139, 445 and UDP 137, 138,
445, and / or by identifying the other computers as present in the
Local (Trusted) zone. Firewall configurations are a very common cause
of (network) browser, and file sharing, problems.
Let me know if the problem still exists, Luke

Garrett Sinclair wrote:

> 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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