Sharing a drive on differnet workgroups

[Bob]

I have several gig on my work laptop that needs copying to my home
desktop. The laptop runs XP Pro, and is set up for connection to my
work's NT domain, named "XYZ". My home PC is a standalone unit running
XP MCE, which was initially configured for a workgroup named "ABC".

The two machines can ping each other, and even I can FTP between them.

Is there a way for my home PC to access my laptop's shared drive? Using
Explorer, I cannot connect to it specifying "\\XYZ\192.168.1.100"
(192.168.1.100 being the IP Address is assigned to my laptop at home
via DHCP)

Ideally, I'd like to avoid changing either of the computers to a
domain/workgroup matching the other. But if it must be done, I guess
the home PC is the best candidate for a change, since that would be
less impactful.

Thanks,
-Bob
Andover, MA

 

[Malke]

I have several gig on my work laptop that needs copying to my home
desktop. The laptop runs XP Pro, and is set up for connection to my
work's NT domain, named "XYZ". My home PC is a standalone unit running
XP MCE, which was initially configured for a workgroup named "ABC".

The two machines can ping each other, and even I can FTP between them.

Is there a way for my home PC to access my laptop's shared drive?
Using Explorer, I cannot connect to it specifying
"\\XYZ\192.168.1.100" (192.168.1.100 being the IP Address is assigned
to my laptop at home via DHCP)

Information from MVP Lanwench:
Note - 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>

Also see:
MS KB article about the Net Use command - http://tinyurl.com/3bpnj

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

 

[Dave Harry]

Try \\192.168.1.100 or \\<computername>.

It should work regardless of workgroups or domains.

AFAIK, <computername> must be unique regardless of workgroup name

HTH