office laptop to home network

[Guest]

I am trying to get an office laptop that has xp pro and a domain setup on it
to connect to the xp home machines on a small home network with the workgroup
called mshome. I would have thought that with everything shared on the home
network the xp pro machine would find the shares. I have tried to log into
the pro machine by both the network login and to the local machine login. I
cannot detect the other machines at all. Any ideas?

 

[Guest]

Please make sure you login as local administrator,
click"start"--"run"---type"cmd"---on the pop up windows, type "ipconfig
/flushdns" ---type "ipconfig/release"---"ipconfig/renew"
and try again.

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "joe smith" <[email protected]>

| I am trying to get an office laptop that has xp pro and a domain setup on it
| to connect to the xp home machines on a small home network with the workgroup
| called mshome. I would have thought that with everything shared on the home
| network the xp pro machine would find the shares. I have tried to log into
| the pro machine by both the network login and to the local machine login. I
| cannot detect the other machines at all. Any ideas?

Did you talk to the Company IS/MIS group and make sure it is OK to connect their equipment
to a home network first ?

 

[Guest]

yes I have permission.

 

[Malke]

I am trying to get an office laptop that has xp pro and a domain setup
on it to connect to the xp home machines on a small home network with
the workgroup called mshome. I would have thought that with everything
shared on the home network the xp pro machine would find the shares. I
have tried to log into the pro machine by both the network login and
to the local machine login. I cannot detect the other machines at all.
Any ideas?

Make sure this is OK with your IT Dept. Then:

(credit 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

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "joe smith" <[email protected]>

| yes I have permission.
|

On the corporate LAN do you use DHCP or static IP ?

On the corporate LAN you connect using what interface ?

On the home network are you sharing with Cable/DSL Router ? If yes are you using DHCP or
static IP assignments ?