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Hello - I think from reading prior posts I'm going to be asking a similar
question to one that has been asked many times. Apologies if this is going to
sound repetitive.
I'm trying to permit the exchange of data between my office PC (a W2K laptop
that is a member of a corporate domain) and my home PC (a standalone XP Home
Edition PC configured as a workgroup member).
Connection is via a crossover cable. No routers to content with.
Here's what I know about the office laptop:
- DHCP enabled
- I have admin rights either via a cached account on the domain or through
an account local to the PC (both are available)
- I'm quite certain there are some policy restrictions that the laptop is
adhering to (by virtue of its membership in the corporate domain) but
wouldn't know where to research what they consist of. Hopefully this is not
an issue.
Things I've tried:
1. The obvious first thing I did was to enabled File and Print sharing on
the home PC, and to actually set-up a share on both boxes (open to everyone,
no restrictions).
2. Disabled the XP firewall completely.
3. Programmed a static IP of a.b.c.1 and a gateway of a.b.c.1 on the home
PC; programmed a static IP of a.b.c.2 and a gateway of a.b.c.1 on the office
PC (... this is suboptimal - I would really rather avoid having to do this,
since it involves switching things back and forth every time I want to bring
the laptop home)
Result ->
: Office PC and Home PC both recognize each other when the cable is
connected ("Local Area Network Speed = 100MBps")
: That's the extent of the success. Boxes can't see one another (NET VIEW)
and can't ping each other (timeout)
4. Ensured NetBIOS over TCP/IP was enabled on both boxes. No change
5. Added NetBEUI protocol to both boxes. No luck. No change. I tried this
both in addition to preserving the IP stack and also after having wiped out
the IP stack on both boxes. Nothing - nada.
6. I've tried all of the above in concert with logging into the laptop with
a LOCAL administrator account that also exists on the home PC ("CommonID").
7. I am UNABLE to change the name of the workgroup on the home PC to be the
same as the name of the laptop's domain because the format of my company's
domain names (...bless their hearts) is xxxx.xxxxxx.xxxxx.com which is too
long a name to fit in the little box provided for the name of workgroup. Not
sure this would make a difference - I'm inclined to think not, given that the
basic ping test failed.
I'm stuck. People at work are useless - colleagues are not IT proficient
(... nor am I really)
nbtstat is not available on the office laptop (...these machines are built
off an image - I wouldn't be surprised if most support programs were not
provided), so if anyone will reply with a request to run some stats, please
also let me know if I can port the versions that are on the home PC over to
the laptop (i.e. do these programs operate independant of the operating
system version) - I have not tried this, and probably wouldn't know how to
read the output anyway.
Help - and thanks for any help !
HWH
question to one that has been asked many times. Apologies if this is going to
sound repetitive.
I'm trying to permit the exchange of data between my office PC (a W2K laptop
that is a member of a corporate domain) and my home PC (a standalone XP Home
Edition PC configured as a workgroup member).
Connection is via a crossover cable. No routers to content with.
Here's what I know about the office laptop:
- DHCP enabled
- I have admin rights either via a cached account on the domain or through
an account local to the PC (both are available)
- I'm quite certain there are some policy restrictions that the laptop is
adhering to (by virtue of its membership in the corporate domain) but
wouldn't know where to research what they consist of. Hopefully this is not
an issue.
Things I've tried:
1. The obvious first thing I did was to enabled File and Print sharing on
the home PC, and to actually set-up a share on both boxes (open to everyone,
no restrictions).
2. Disabled the XP firewall completely.
3. Programmed a static IP of a.b.c.1 and a gateway of a.b.c.1 on the home
PC; programmed a static IP of a.b.c.2 and a gateway of a.b.c.1 on the office
PC (... this is suboptimal - I would really rather avoid having to do this,
since it involves switching things back and forth every time I want to bring
the laptop home)
Result ->
: Office PC and Home PC both recognize each other when the cable is
connected ("Local Area Network Speed = 100MBps")
: That's the extent of the success. Boxes can't see one another (NET VIEW)
and can't ping each other (timeout)
4. Ensured NetBIOS over TCP/IP was enabled on both boxes. No change
5. Added NetBEUI protocol to both boxes. No luck. No change. I tried this
both in addition to preserving the IP stack and also after having wiped out
the IP stack on both boxes. Nothing - nada.
6. I've tried all of the above in concert with logging into the laptop with
a LOCAL administrator account that also exists on the home PC ("CommonID").
7. I am UNABLE to change the name of the workgroup on the home PC to be the
same as the name of the laptop's domain because the format of my company's
domain names (...bless their hearts) is xxxx.xxxxxx.xxxxx.com which is too
long a name to fit in the little box provided for the name of workgroup. Not
sure this would make a difference - I'm inclined to think not, given that the
basic ping test failed.
I'm stuck. People at work are useless - colleagues are not IT proficient
(... nor am I really)
nbtstat is not available on the office laptop (...these machines are built
off an image - I wouldn't be surprised if most support programs were not
provided), so if anyone will reply with a request to run some stats, please
also let me know if I can port the versions that are on the home PC over to
the laptop (i.e. do these programs operate independant of the operating
system version) - I have not tried this, and probably wouldn't know how to
read the output anyway.
Help - and thanks for any help !
HWH