Connecting my Work computer on my home network.

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Gerry

My notebook computer is running windows xp pro. It is configured to connect
to my office network which has a domain. My home network is peer to peer. I
can get on the internet but I can not see shared printers or files.
Thanks for the help.

Gerry
 
Gerry said:
My notebook computer is running windows xp pro. It is configured to
connect to my office network which has a domain. My home network is
peer to peer. I can get on the internet but I can not see shared
printers or files. Thanks for the help.

Gerry
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All credit and thanks to 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

Malke
 
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