win xp and w2k cannot 'see' each othe when they did previously.

[Ged]

Thanks for help to date. I have work PC (windows xp pro
sp2) on a domain and home PC (w2k pro sp4) on a workgroup.
On a previous build (wxp pro but sp1) of work PC I was
able to see the shared resources on the W2k pc from the
wxp pc (but not vice versa) and this was enought to allow
me to use the printers I have shared at home. However now
it does not seem to be possible.

I understand that if the workgroup name matches domain
name I should be able to see resources on each. From this
I have the following questions.

How closely must the workgroup name match the domain name.
The work domain is EU.company.net. Is this what I need to
call the domain?

When you say the cached details need to match, do you mean
I need to put my work pc logon id as a user on the home pc?

Thanks for your patience. I have tried searching the ng
but the search tools are imprecise and it is difficult to
find relevant articles when you don't know what you are
looking for.

Thanks again for any help

Ged

-----Original Message-----
Most likely a workgroup/domain user permissions issue as described many many
times before on this NG. If your laptop is joined to a domain at work, you
must logon locally (NOT to the domain) in order to network it with your home
workgroup (unless your home workgroup is the same name as your work domain
in which case your cached domain credentials must be matched on your other
pcs).
You must use the same local user account and password on all machines. You
must have File and Printer sharing enabled.




.

..

 

[Ged]

I don't understand this but I have just been able to find
and access the w2k pc by searching for the ip address and
when search function on wxp found it I could access it
(with the appropriate password of course).

However it would be good to have a name attached as I use
dynamic ip and this could get tedious if each time I need
to find IP and then search, then access via this.

Any ideas?

Ged