Setting up network at home

[Guest]

Hey all,

Okay, so currently at home, I have a desktop running Windows 2000. The home
computer has broadband internet connected to a wireless router. I also have a
laptop with Win XP Pro, that I use at work and connects to my network there.
When I come home, I can easily connect to the wireless network and surf the
internet from anywhere in the house. Great.

Now, what I would like to do it buy an external networked harddrive to back
up both the contents of my desktop and my laptop. Something like a Maxtor
200GB external. However, to do that I think I need to set up a home network
between my desktop and my laptop. However, my laptop connects to my network
at the office too, and when I tried to configure it to connect to a home
network at home, I ended up locking myself out of the laptop (kept showing me
the login screen and my password wouldn't work). I had to take it to a system
admin to get back on. Is there no way to set up my laptop to run on either of
the networks depending on where I am?

And if I can't, is there someway to still be able to use the external hard
drive? Share printers off the desktop? Any of that? Help would be
appreciated! Thanks!

 

[Steve Duff [MVP]]

www.netswitcher.com

Or just configure your home network workgroup name and the
username/passwords on your home network machine to match what you use
at work. This would be my choice.

Steve Duff, MCSE, MVP
Ergodic Systems, Inc.