Re: Adding a domain'd laptop to my home network



Hi
Assuming that you are allowed to "play" with the Laptop settings, and you
can log as an Admin.
May be this can Help, http://www.ezlan.net/faq#fewtcp-ip
Jack (MVP-Networking).

"Guy" <Guy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:F385741A-2869-4AAF-B570-61391C7C5436@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Is there a way of adding my work laptop (running Win XP Pro and is set up
> for
> a Domain) into my home network? I have established the network
> successfully
> using the Network Setup Wizard on the desktop pc (Win XP HE) which has the
> broadband modem attached to it, and it tells me to run the Wizard on any
> other pc that I want to add to the network. However, the Wizard won't run
> on
> my laptop because it's part of a domain. There was a similar question
> posted some months ago, but I didn't understand the response, which was:
>
> "As long as you have an IP address on the correct network at home and can
> ping the other computers/gateway/etc, you can connect to resources on your
> home computers ....don't change your domain setup.
>
> One example, using a command prompt:
>
> net use x: \\computer\share /user:computername\username
>
> ....where the username is a valid user account on the computer you want to
> access. Enter the password when prompted."
>
> I'm not sure, from this, what exactly I should be doing on the laptop.
> The
> home network name is MSHOME, the "host" computer is called DESKTOP. I
> sign
> in to my laptop with username GUY and domain name I2B.
>


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