Basic networking question with laptop

[Jeff]

I have a laptop that I set up with another pc at my home as my network.it
shares a printer is all. My question is:

1) I go to college which has it's own network which I sign onto that gives
me access to the web.

2) How do I get back to my home(house) router so that I can send anything I
want to print back to my printer at home?

3) The router's standard ip is the same as many.

4) So basically; How do I find my way from the web back to my printer at my
house?

Jeff

 

[Chuck]

I have a laptop that I set up with another pc at my home as my network.it
shares a printer is all. My question is:

1) I go to college which has it's own network which I sign onto that gives
me access to the web.

2) How do I get back to my home(house) router so that I can send anything I
want to print back to my printer at home?

3) The router's standard ip is the same as many.

4) So basically; How do I find my way from the web back to my printer at my
house?

Jeff

Jeff,

To send jobs to a printer, behind a NAT router at your home, thru the Internet,
is not terribly simple. You're going to have to setup a VPN between your home
system and your laptop.

The specific possibilities for a VPN will vary, depending upon what OS you have
on each computer, and make and model of the router.

 

[Malke]

Jeff,

To send jobs to a printer, behind a NAT router at your home, thru the
Internet,
is not terribly simple. You're going to have to setup a VPN between
your home system and your laptop.

The specific possibilities for a VPN will vary, depending upon what OS
you have on each computer, and make and model of the router.

Chuck - Not to mention whether or not the college's IT people will allow
that on their network. I know you and I wouldn't.

Jeff - I'm not sure why you want to do this, but you could set up an
email account only for home and email your documents to your home
address. Or if you want someone at the house to share your documents,
send the email to them. Or you could purchase a small printer for your
room at college.

Malke

 

[Jeff]

Chuck,
Thanks for the clarification. A Virtual Private Network huh?
Sounds sorta difficult but; The o.s of the laptop is XP PRO and the printer
on the home pc;the home pc is XP Home. Can it work? and if so? where do I
find info about it? The router is a Linksys and they do have a DDNS service
I can sign up for if that helps.

Jeff

 

[Malke]

Chuck,
Thanks for the clarification. A Virtual Private Network
huh?
Sounds sorta difficult but; The o.s of the laptop is XP PRO and the
printer on the home pc;the home pc is XP Home. Can it work? and if so?
where do I
find info about it? The router is a Linksys and they do have a DDNS
service I can sign up for if that helps.

You should ask your college IT people about this. If they allow it, they
can tell you how to do it.

Malke

 

[Chuck]

Chuck - Not to mention whether or not the college's IT people will allow
that on their network. I know you and I wouldn't.

Jeff - I'm not sure why you want to do this, but you could set up an
email account only for home and email your documents to your home
address. Or if you want someone at the house to share your documents,
send the email to them. Or you could purchase a small printer for your
room at college.

Malke

Good call, Malke. If I was a college network admin, I'd have my hands full
keeping malware off the network, just from the computers directly connected. I
sure wouldn't want tunnels running out of my network to heaven knows where.

Web based email is a far better solution.

 

[Jeff]

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

Jeff

 

[Malke]

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