Re: Why impossible -- domain laptop access home workgroup

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From: Leythos (void_at_nowhere.lan)
Date: 01/02/05 

Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 03:32:48 GMT

In article <2DA48A65-A038-49F9-8014-F7392D1EC894@microsoft.com>,
DrKen@discussions.microsoft.com says...
> 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.

This has already been explained a number of times, but here goes again.

On your home computer, assuming 2000 or XP, assign a password to the
administrator user - in fact, assign a password for every user, it
should have been that way to start.

Create a user on the computer with the same name as you use on your
laptop, give it the same password as the laptop user.

Now, when you want to access files on the home computer, open Explorer
(NOT IE) and type \\computername\share where you replace the
"computername" with the network name of your home computer, and "share"
with the shared resource name of the share on the home computer.

If you want to share a printer on your home computer you NEED to first
authenticate the laptop to the home computer as in above, then you can
do this \\computername\ (leave the space after the ending \ blank) when
you hit enter it will show all available shares, printers will be a
folder you can open, open it, find the printer you shared, can right
click, then click CONNECT, it will load the driver and give you access
to it. Remember, you can't print to it UNTIL you authenticate with the
home computer from the laptop first.

You could make youself a batch file with all of this in it:

: THIS IS MY MAP BATCH FILE
:===========================
: delete anything mapped to drive letter X
net use X: /delete
: remap X to my home computer share
net use X: \\computername\share /user:myuser mypassword
:
: Put more maps here if needed

If you are running NTFS on the home computer you could map to the
\\computername\c$ share and have complete access to everything on the
drive, the same would be true if you have a second partition/drive as
\\computername\d$

I use this method with workgroup computers from my work laptop and when
my work laptop is in a workgroup, you can do the DOMAIN SHARES the same
way. 

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