Network XP Pro and XP Home

[Guest]

My wife wants to use her work laptop with our wireless network at home. She
is running XP Pro and I am running XP Home. She can connect to the network
to access the internet without a problem but she is unable to see my laptop
or print to the shared printer. Is there a way to do this?

Thanks

randy

 

[msnews.microsoft.com]

Are you on the same workgroup and do you have the printer shared across the
network?

 

[Guest]

My wife's laptop is configured for her work domain, and the home network is a
workgroup. How do I share the printer across the network?

 

[Guest]

The easiest way is to rename the home workgroup to be the same as the work
domain. DO NOT ALTER THE DOMAIN CONFIGURATION OR THE LAPTOP WILL BE
INACCESSIBLE.

 

[NobodyMan]

The easiest way is to rename the home workgroup to be the same as the work
domain. DO NOT ALTER THE DOMAIN CONFIGURATION OR THE LAPTOP WILL BE
INACCESSIBLE.

??

You can do very little to alter the "doman configuration." Unless she
is a system administrator, she couldn't do this anyway. If she WAS an
administrator, the OP wouldn't be asking this question in the first
place as she would know what to do.

The worst that could probably happen is that they would take the
Domain based laptop off the domain and add it the the HomeLAN
workgroup. That is not a major problem but an inconvience when she
goes back to work and needs the IT folks to add the machine back to
the domain for her. They will then give her a dressing down for that.
I know I would.

 

[Guest]

Nobodyman,
I agree with you that in theory only an admin can alter the domain
configuration. However, I have seen on other boards, cases where users have
successfully changed the domain configuration because the admin neglected to
utilize a limited account for the user and gave the user full admin rights.
User removed it from the domain using their cached domain account which had
admin rights and then couldn't log back in as the domain accounts were no
longer valid and they did not know the local admin password.
:
??

 

[NobodyMan]

Nobodyman,
I agree with you that in theory only an admin can alter the domain
configuration. However, I have seen on other boards, cases where users have
successfully changed the domain configuration because the admin neglected to
utilize a limited account for the user and gave the user full admin rights.
User removed it from the domain using their cached domain account which had
admin rights and then couldn't log back in as the domain accounts were no
longer valid and they did not know the local admin password.

My second paragraph covered that. They took their box off the domain.
If they can't use it after that, then no more damage was done. Once
they get back to work, the IT staff can fix this in about ten seconds,
dress the user down for being an idiot, then everybody can get on with
their lives.