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[charrison112]

I was trying to share my home printer with my work laptop over my home
wireless network, but I messed something up.

I do not have administrator access to my company laptop. I brought it
home and logged in with with:

myusername
my password (same one I use at work)
mycompany_domain (note, I can't log into "this computer"...I tried).

I set up a connection to my secure home wireless network and all was
fine.

I ran the network setup wizard and it said I can't run it because I
was part of a domain. So I right clicked on My Computer, went to the
Computer Name tab, clicked on Change..., and typed in MSHOME in the
workgroup. It asked me for a username and password...I gave it my
regular one and it seemed to work. It said welcome to the MSHOME
domain and told me to reboot. I did.

Now when I get the login screen it won't accept my password, and when
I click Options, domain is not showing (so I can't change it back to
mycompany_domain). I'm stuck at the login screen with only username
and password. Help!

 

[Malke]

I was trying to share my home printer with my work laptop over my home
wireless network, but I messed something up.

I do not have administrator access to my company laptop. I brought it
home and logged in with with:

myusername
my password (same one I use at work)
mycompany_domain (note, I can't log into "this computer"...I tried).

I set up a connection to my secure home wireless network and all was
fine.

I ran the network setup wizard and it said I can't run it because I
was part of a domain. So I right clicked on My Computer, went to the
Computer Name tab, clicked on Change..., and typed in MSHOME in the
workgroup. It asked me for a username and password...I gave it my
regular one and it seemed to work. It said welcome to the MSHOME
domain and told me to reboot. I did.

Now when I get the login screen it won't accept my password, and when
I click Options, domain is not showing (so I can't change it back to
mycompany_domain). I'm stuck at the login screen with only username
and password. Help!

Oops. You removed your laptop from the domain. Since most domain
workstations (like your laptop) don't have any local users, you can no
longer log onto that machine. You could use a password cracking program
to change the local built-in Administrator password but this will make
your company's IT Dept. even more unhappy than they are going to be.

So the answer is: be patient, understand that you can't use your laptop
today and that you will need to take it into work and have your IT Dept.
rejoin it to the domain tomorrow. You cannot do this from home.

Next time you want to use your home network's resources with your work
laptop, see this from MVP Lanwench:

You don't need to change to a workgroup just to access resources on it.
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, etc., 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

If the above looks too tricksy, then just transfer the documents you
want to print to your home computer using a USB key. Or ask your IT
Dept. how they want you to handle this.


Malke

 

[charrison112]

Oops. You removed your laptop from the domain. Since most domain
workstations (like your laptop) don't have any local users, you can no
longer log onto that machine. You could use a password cracking program
to change the local built-in Administrator password but this will make
your company's IT Dept. even more unhappy than they are going to be.

So the answer is: be patient, understand that you can't use your laptop
today and that you will need to take it into work and have your IT Dept.
rejoin it to the domain tomorrow. You cannot do this from home.

Next time you want to use your home network's resources with your work
laptop, see this from MVP Lanwench:

You don't need to change to a workgroup just to access resources on it.
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, etc., 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/cpy9qhttp://winhlp.com/wxdomainworkgroup.htm- MVP Hans-Georg Michna

If the above looks too tricksy, then just transfer the documents you
want to print to your home computer using a USB key. Or ask your IT
Dept. how they want you to handle this.

Malke
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Thanks! That's all very helpful and I'll try it. I'm most concerned
not about sharing documents, but about connecting to my home printer
wirelessly. That's really all I care about doing...printing without a
physical connection to the printer.

Thank you!

 

[Malke]

Thanks! That's all very helpful and I'll try it. I'm most concerned
not about sharing documents, but about connecting to my home printer
wirelessly. That's really all I care about doing...printing without a
physical connection to the printer.

Thank you!

You're welcome. You'll be able to print to your home printer using the
commands I gave you. Make sure you share out the home printer first, of
course. Or don't mess around with creating a network, etc. if all you
want to do is print documents. That's what I meant by transferring the
documents from the laptop to the desktop with a USB key and printing
them from the desktop. Or your IT Dept. may have an easier way for you
to do this.


Malke