Connecting from XP Professional to XP Home

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I have a laptop that I bring home from work. It is running XP Pro. I am
attempting to connect to my home PC via my home network. It is running XP
Home. I do get a pop up asking me to input my username and password, and
input the information however it keeps coming back. I should note that my
laptop connects to a domain at work and after inputting the username and
password it comes back and the username is given the prefix of the domain I
log into at work. Any help/suggestions?

Thanks!
 
Rob said:
I have a laptop that I bring home from work. It is running XP Pro. I
am
attempting to connect to my home PC via my home network. It is
running XP
Home. I do get a pop up asking me to input my username and password,
and
input the information however it keeps coming back. I should note
that my laptop connects to a domain at work and after inputting the
username and password it comes back and the username is given the
prefix of the domain I
log into at work. Any help/suggestions?
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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

Also see:

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
 
Is there a reason that I cannot simply type the share and then username and
pw? I.E. (from run) "\\computername\c$" (then when prompted) username/pw

I would prefer to do that, but I can't figure out why it won't let me and
continues to assign the domain to the username when I do it as above.
 
Google for a program called Netswitcher which will allow youto do what you
want without all the netuse hassle.
 
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