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

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From: Doug Sherman [MVP] (dsherman_at_nospam.tampabay.rr.com)
Date: 08/18/04 

Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 19:31:25 -0400

Change the name of your home network workgroup to the NetBIOS name of your
work domain (NetBIOS name of mydomain.com = mydomain).

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

"Garrett Sinclair" <garrettsinclair@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:6d14540b.0408171457.3ef5a131@posting.google.com...
> 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?

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