Re: Basic networking question with laptop

Jeff wrote:

Thanks Guys,
I commute home everyweekend ;so i guess just taking my
laptop
home would be the simplest solution or the e-mail suggestion sounds
good too. Yup come to think of it; I wouldn't want people tunneling
into my home network; so if I ran the IT dept. at a major midwestern
university I wouldn't allow it either!! Didn't think I guess! LOL

Yup. Here's information about using your laptop on a home network if you
have to join a domain at school:

(from MVP Lanwench) You don't need to change to a workgroup just to
access resources on it. You shouldn't play with your laptop's network
settings at all. Once you've logged in using your domain account (using
cached credentials), and have an IP address on the home network, you
can map drives, use printers, whatnot, very easily - one way, in a
command line:

net use x: \\computername\sharename /user:computername\username <enter>

MS KB article about the Net Use command - http://tinyurl.com/3bpnj

Managing One Windows XP-based Laptop for the Office and Home by MVP
Charlie Russel
http://tinyurl.com/cpy9q

http://winhlp.com/wxdomainworkgroup.htm - MVP Hans-Georg Michna

Malke
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