connect to home and office networks

[Guest]

I have a personal laptop that connects to my workgroup at home. All machines
at home can see shared folders, printers, etc.

When I bring by laptop to work, I want to connect to my work domain and
access files, printers, etc. What I get when I connect a cable to the router
is a list of shares, but they are not accessible. I believe this is because
i never have logged into the domain, but I don't know how to do that when I
am not prompted to.

Is there a way to work between these two separate networks?

 

[Doug Sherman [MVP]]

The best way at the office is to join your computer to the domain and logon
with a domain user account. When you get home, log onto the Local Machine,
not the domain - use yopur present user name and password. The experience
will be more seamless if you change the name of your home workgroup to the
NetBIOS name of your work domain. eg. NetBIOS name of domain.com = domain.

Doug Sherman
MCSE, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP