I have a win2k laptop that is joined to a win2k domain at work.
At home, I have a wireless router that I am trying to use to implement a
home network (currently, this is not connected to the internet, but soon it
will be). I have a winXP desktop PC connected to the router via ethernet
that I want to use as a file / printer server.

I bring my laptop home, & want to print out stuff on the printer by
connecting (wirelessly) to my home network. I want to log onto my laptop
using cached credentails (i.e. using my work domain account login), as I may
need to access encrypted files that are keyed to that account. So I turn on
my laptop, resume my (suspended) session from work & plug in my wireless
network card.

Now, I have a problem. As soon as I plug in the wireless card, all file
system operations on the laptop seem to be delayed by several seconds.
Something is plainly timing out. For example, displaying the properties of
the wireless network connection on the laptop seems to take ~10s.

I suspect the problem is that the laptop is searching for the domain
controller (for the work domain) and not finding it (not surprising as I am
at home). I am not sure, though.

How can I diagnose what is going wrong?

(If anyone has any suggestions for how best to set such a system up I would
also be grateful. Please don't suggest renaming the home workgroup to the
work domain name, as my wife has a similar requirement and her work domain
name is not the same as mine. I have already setup a share on the WinXP
machine & can access this (after the usual pause) providing that I use the
"attche under a different username" option for file sharing. Without this
share, I cannot seem to see the winXP printer at all).

Tkanks!

Andy

Andy wrote:
> I have a win2k laptop that is joined to a win2k domain at work.
> At home, I have a wireless router that I am trying to use to
> implement a home network (currently, this is not connected to the
> internet, but soon it will be). I have a winXP desktop PC connected
> to the router via ethernet that I want to use as a file / printer
> server.
>
> I bring my laptop home, & want to print out stuff on the printer by
> connecting (wirelessly) to my home network. I want to log onto my
> laptop using cached credentails (i.e. using my work domain account
> login), as I may need to access encrypted files that are keyed to
> that account. So I turn on my laptop, resume my (suspended) session
> from work & plug in my wireless network card.
>
> Now, I have a problem. As soon as I plug in the wireless card, all
> file system operations on the laptop seem to be delayed by several
> seconds. Something is plainly timing out. For example, displaying
> the properties of the wireless network connection on the laptop seems
> to take ~10s.

What happens if you do a full shutdown, restart, log in with cached
credentials, and THEN plug in your wireless card & see if you get a new IP?
I suspect that your hibernated/standby status may have a lot to do with
this.
>
> I suspect the problem is that the laptop is searching for the domain
> controller (for the work domain) and not finding it (not surprising
> as I am at home). I am not sure, though.
>
> How can I diagnose what is going wrong?
>
> (If anyone has any suggestions for how best to set such a system up I
> would also be grateful. Please don't suggest renaming the home
> workgroup to the work domain name, as my wife has a similar
> requirement and her work domain name is not the same as mine. I have
> already setup a share on the WinXP machine & can access this (after
> the usual pause) providing that I use the "attche under a different
> username" option for file sharing. Without this share, I cannot seem
> to see the winXP printer at all).
>
> Tkanks!
>
> Andy