Accessing a File Share... why is this so hard?

[Chris]

My work laptop is part of the domain at work. When I come home, I
want to be able to connect to a file share on one of my home computers
(named BACKUP), which is not part of a domain.

The share on BACKUP is setup to only allow the administrator to access
it. Because I login to all my other home computers as administrator
with the same password, I can access this share from any other
machine.

When I try to access the share from my work laptop though, it fails,
and does not even give me a username/password prompt.

If I try to connect to a root like \\BACKUP\D$ (from my laptop), I DO
get a prompt, but I can't login. I tried "Administrator" and
"BACKUP\Administrator" as the username but it didn't work.

I tried creating an account on BACKUP that has the same login username
and password as my domain account that I use to login to the laptop,
and then granted that user the rights to access the share, but that
also didn't work.


Can anyone point me in the right direction on this?

 

[NobodyMan]

My work laptop is part of the domain at work. When I come home, I
want to be able to connect to a file share on one of my home computers
(named BACKUP), which is not part of a domain.

The share on BACKUP is setup to only allow the administrator to access
it. Because I login to all my other home computers as administrator
with the same password, I can access this share from any other
machine.

When I try to access the share from my work laptop though, it fails,
and does not even give me a username/password prompt.

If I try to connect to a root like \\BACKUP\D$ (from my laptop), I DO
get a prompt, but I can't login. I tried "Administrator" and
"BACKUP\Administrator" as the username but it didn't work.

I tried creating an account on BACKUP that has the same login username
and password as my domain account that I use to login to the laptop,
and then granted that user the rights to access the share, but that
also didn't work.


Can anyone point me in the right direction on this?

The problem is that your laptop is set to logon to a domain, but your
home network is set up as a workgroup. Your domain logon won't work
on your workgroup LAN, even if you create an identical account name/PW
on every machine in your home LAN. Domain accounts just don't work
when you try to logon to a workgroup-based LAN due to problems between
the two network SIDs.

You'll need to change you laptop to a workgroup-based access, then
create a new local account on your laptop that matches the name/pw on
your home LAN. Then when you get back to work, you'd have to have
your System Administrator re-join you to the Domain.

Now if I were your SysAdmin, this wouldn't happen since I would
quickly tire of having to re-add your machine to my Domain every day.

 

[Chris]

Thanks for the response.

Shouldn't I be able to login to the non-domain computer when prompted
using the COMPUTERNAME\LoginName method?

If my home was setup to use a domain, for example "DomainHome",
shouldn't anyone be able to login to a file share using
DomainHome\UserName ?

I can connect to the C$ share on my work laptop from my home machines
using WorkDomain\UserName, why wouldn't this work in reverse?

Maybe it is only a 1 way method... nondomain to domain enabled.


Let me pose this question. If you have a computer that belongs to
WorkDomain, could you login to access a file share on another domain
if when prompted you enter your credentials as
AnotherDomain\MyOtherAccount ?

Thanks