Re: Why impossible -- domain laptop access home workgroup

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From: Richard G. Harper (rgharper_at_email.com)
Date: 01/02/05 

Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 22:11:40 -0500

See the reply Lanwench posted about twenty minutes before your reply to me,
as I suspect it contains all the information you need to overcome your
problem. By all means do not disable the firewall on your router, as it is
essential to your safety and not a part of your problem. 

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"Ken" <Ken@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:FB14E675-6514-41A0-B4F4-D549A8EACEE2@microsoft.com...
> Thank you for your offer to help.
>
> Before I give details, first let me apologize for the petulance displayed 
> in
> my original post. It was written in the heat of frustration, and in
> retrospect is painfully disrespectful to the security concerns of 
> corporate
> IT professionals.
>
> OK, now for the details. The XP Pro laptop belongs to my work domain. When 
> I
> get on the LAN at home, I see my home workgroup in My Network 
> Places\Entire
> Network\Microsoft Windows Network. When I click on the workgroup name 
> (right
> or left click), there's a momentary pause, then the following error:
>
> "Workgroup is not accessible. You might not have permissions to use this
> network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if 
> you
> have access permissions. The network path was not found."
>
> My home LAN is a straightforward peer-to-peer workgroup. The connecting
> device is a broadband wireless router. I'm able to ping the IP address 
> (not
> network name) of the other computers in the workgroup from the XP laptop.
> I've made sure the browsing service is turned on, and that NetBIOS over
> TCP/IP is enabled on the XP laptop. There is a firewall on the router, but 
> I
> haven't disabled this yet because a) I can ping across the router, b) the
> other computers in the workgroup (one of which is also XP Pro) can share 
> its
> resources and access other shares, and c) if I have to disable the router
> firewall anytime I want to access my home LAN, that ain't happening.
>
>
> "Richard G. Harper" wrote:
>
>> I don't know how you're trying to accomplish this, but I can access my
>> workgroup at home with my laptop from my domain at work just fine. 
>> Perhaps
>> if you share some details of how you're attempting this (and perhaps more
>> importantly, how you're failing or what error messages you're seeing) we 
>> can
>> help.
>>
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>> Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User]  rgharper@gmail.com
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>>
>>
>> "DrKen" <DrKen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:2DA48A65-A038-49F9-8014-F7392D1EC894@microsoft.com...
>> > After much online research, I've concluded that my laptop
>> > cannot access my home network, because the laptop is a
>> > member of my domain at work, and my home network is
>> > configured as a workgroup.
>> >
>> > The article that finally convinced me to stop looking was
>> > this:
>> >
>> > www.microsoft.com/hardware/broadbandnetworking/10_concept_
>> > switch_workgroups_domains.mspx
>> >
>> > My reason for posting is not to seek a solution (since
>> > there is none), but to ask a question: Why isn't this
>> > possible? It simply doesn't make sense to me that a
>> > computer that belongs to a secure network cannot access a
>> > network that is LESS secure.
>> >
>> > I just want a succint, rational explanation for this
>> > problem. Any contribution would be appreciated. Thanks.
>> >
>>
>>
>>

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