Re: Adding a domain'd laptop to my home network
- From: Chuck <none@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 08:28:48 -0800
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 02:44:03 -0800, Guy <Guy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>"Jack" wrote:
>
>> 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.
>Chuck & Jack,
>
>really appreciate you both replying. It certainly looks a complicated
>business (for me, anyway). Am I correct in saying that the easiest thing is
>to set up the home network with the same name as the domain name? I cannot
>alter my laptop's domain name, but I can alter the home pc workgroup name.
>(Incidentally, once you've set up a home network via the Wizard, how do you
>rename or delete it?)
Guy,
That's the idea. In the browser context, the only time domain vs workgroup
becomes relevant is when the master browser is elected. Otherwise, a domain
member is the same as a workgroup member. Make the workgroup the same as the
domain, and the master browser for one will service the other.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/07/windows-networking.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/07/windows-networking.html
Once you setup any home network, renaming the workgroup is done by changing the
workgroup names in all of the computers. There is no central workgroup control
- it's all peer to peer. You change the workgroup, on each individual computer,
from the System Properties (My Computer - Properties) wizard.
--
Cheers,
Chuck, MS-MVP [Windows - Networking]
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/
Paranoia is not a problem, when it's a normal response from experience.
My email is AT DOT
actual address pchuck mvps org.
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