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

From: Garrett Sinclair (garrettsinclair_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/17/04 

Date: 17 Aug 2004 15:57:07 -0700

OK.

On my work laptop, I created a user ("homeuser") in the
Administrator's group with a local machine login (not via the domain.)
 I also enabled my guest account.

I can surf the internet fine and can use the command line to "ping"
other PCs on my home network (like before) - but I still cannot "see"
the other PCs in my network places - entire network - microsoft
windows network - "MRC" workgroup area.

Any other ideas?

"Doug Sherman [MVP]" <dsherman@nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message news:<u038F4ugEHA.3864@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>...
> On the laptop, right click My Computer and select Manage. Expand Local
> Users and Groups and click on Users. See if there is a Local User account
> which you know the password for. If not, you may be able to create one and
> add it to the Administrators group.
>
> If you have a local user account, reboot and at the logon screen log onto
> the local machione (this computer) instead of the domain. If you do not see
> this option, click on the Options button. You may have to enable the Guest
> account on the XP Pro machine to share files with the XP Home machines.
>
> Doug Sherman
> MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP
>
> "Garrett Sinclair" <garrettsinclair@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:6d14540b.0408141544.65482ef9@posting.google.com...
> > 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?