John said:
Thank you very much for your answers.
Here are some specifics that may help you to help me.
1) Yes, the laptop is on a domain. At home I just have workgroup.
2) Yes, I have learnt that lessons before of messing aroound with
domain names. I will not change anything on the laptop.
Good!
3)Yes, I pinged the IP address of the home PC and it worked fine.
But it did not work when I am pinging from the home PC to the
laptop (100% loss).
Firewall enabled?
Does it even matter? You don't really need to access anything on
your laptop from your desktop, do you? Easier not to bother with
this. Do everything the other way around.
4) I tried your command and made the laptop to think. But it
pompted me with a password. It did not work regardless what I
typed in.
You need to use the password for the credentials you use on the
remote PC
Here is what I use:
net use x: \\180.156.1.105\Lihmw /USER:FORD-IGGBN\johnl
180.156.1.105 --- the IP address of the home PC.
Lihmw - the name of my home network
No - this would have to be a share. \\server\share. Share a folder.
Are you really using public IP addresses on your home network? Bad
idea - get a small gateway/router/firewall appliance that does NAT.
Use private addresses & DHCP on that device so your home network
gets autoconfigured with the right IP addresses.
FORD-IGGBN -- is the name of the laptop
johnl -- is my username at work (on the laptop)
This won't work. You'd have to use a local account on the laptop
...as I said, do not mess around with this; it should not be
necessary as long as you can access shares *from* the laptop.
I tried to use the help on the command "NET" over the weekend and
could not figure out what is in and what is out.
Look forward to your response.
Pull back. What's the desktop name? Let's presume it's DESKTOP. Can
you ping DESKTOP by name from the laptop? We've already established
you can ping by IP address.
On the laptop, try
net use x: \\DESKTOP\share /user
ESKTOP\username <enter>
You should be prompted for the password for that account. After you
enter it get authenticated, you can use any other shares on the
DESKTOP, including printers, provided the shares are set up right.
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 10:21:59 -0500, "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
John Li wrote:
This may have been an old problem but I did not find solutions
anywhere on the net.
I would like to connect the laptop from work to share files with
my home computers. The laptop is running XP SP1 with VPN.
Is it a member of a domain at work?
My home
computers run WIN2000 and I have a home network with wireless. I
can access the internet from the work laptop through my home
network, but not be able to share files with my home PCs.
If you're on a domain with your laptop, it's a lot easier not to
bother sharing anything on the laptop w/the other PCs - do it the
other way around (access your home PCs from your laptop) for any
file transfer, etc.
Do not under any circumstances change your work laptop's domain
membership. You don't need to, and you will make a lot of trouble
for yourself if you do this.
I can not see the home
network from the work laptop besides connection.
Can you ping each home PC by IP address? By name, if you connect,
power on, & wait a bit?
One time I used a command and the connection worked. I do not
remomber the exact command I used but it is something like this
from "cmd" window:
net use\\computername/ipc$ passwork usename
Close, but no cigar:
net use x: \\computername\sharename /user:computername\username
<enter>
or net use x: \\computerIPaddress\sharename ...etc
net use /? <enter> in a command line will show you all the
parameters you can user.
Plesae help me to find the right command and thank you very much.
