sharing wireless connection

[SWhy]

I use a laptop at my work with a wirelness network card in
it, this works fine and connects to the company LAN when I
am at work. This also works most of the time when I am
home (I live in the campus so the distance from my home to
work is bearly 100 feet).

I just bought a desktop pc for my home and I want to
connect this pc to my company LAN through the laptop, the
new pc and the laptop have a regular network card in it
and someone has told me that I can use a crossover cable
to connect the two PCs.

I am using windows 2000 on both computers. What should I
do?

thanks.

 

[Guest]

It's kind of tough, and if it is Legalized by your work
place.
You need to know what IP address available at work,
assigned it statically to your desktop. Make sure no
conflict, if it does you are in big trouble buddy!
Or, have your laptop as a gateway.

 

[SWhy]

I am not using VPN to connect to company LAN, I have no
dialup/dsl/cable connection at home, I connect direcly to
the company LAN through the wireless LAN card in my
laptop, and once I am in LAN I can use it to browse
internet when I need to. As you can guess this is
extremely fast and at no cost to me.

When I login into the company domain it takes care of
automatic scanning and updating security patches, and the
company firewall takes care of rest of security issues.

May be I will be better off buying another wireless card
for my desktop pc, and make a formal request to the
Security admin to assign a static IP address, that way my
desktop pc will be on record and legalized.