Windows XP Workgroup PC to Domain PC

[Lillian]

I have a laptop that I use from work that is on a domain. When I am at
home, I would like to see the other computers on my home network
(workgroup). I can see the other PC, ( had to load netbeui) but I cannot
login to it.

I have created an admin user on the other PC, but when I try to explore, map
a drive or whatever, I get a box to login, but cannot enter a username. It
is greyed out and shows "computername\guest". I enabled guest on the other
PC. If I login with the guest password I get an error that it cannot find
the path. UGGGGGGGGG. This is getting very frustrating.

Both machines are running Windows XP Pro.

 

[Guest]

I have a similar problem. I have a work laptop that is part of a domain at
work. At home I have setup a workgroup for my home PC and have shared my
printers. I would like to connect to the shared printers and file shares
from my work laptop. When I use the printer wizard, although it see's the
home domain on the network, it doesn't seem to see the shared printers.

Help....

 

[Leythos]

I have a similar problem. I have a work laptop that is part of a domain at
work. At home I have setup a workgroup for my home PC and have shared my
printers. I would like to connect to the shared printers and file shares
from my work laptop. When I use the printer wizard, although it see's the
home domain on the network, it doesn't seem to see the shared printers.

Help....

Leave the work computer alone, don't change anything.

From the work computer, you connect to the home computers resources by
using Explorer and then browsing the resource you want:

In the address bar, type \\home_computer_IP\ and then hit enter, it
should come back and ask for a user name and password - if you didn't
setup a password on the home computer you should do that.

Once you get "authenticated" with the home computer, using a user
account/password from the home computer, you can make use of all of it's
resources.

If you want to use a printer, you just \\home_computer_IP\, OPEN
Printers and Faxes folder, then right-click and CONNECT. If you didn't
setup the home printer as shared, you need to share it first.

Setup a batch file, something that makes use of the NET USE commands to
delete the mapping and then remap it when you run the batch file:

Something like this:

: Map my H drive letter to servers COMMON share
net use h: /delete
net use h: \\S2kroot1\Common


The /delete will unmap anything connected to H before it gets remapped -
you need to change the S2KROOT1 to the network name of your home
computer, and the Common to the name of a share you create.

 

[Lillian]

Ok, I can do that, but I cannot enter another user name. It is greyed out!
What causes that?

 

[Jetro]

Lillian,

Disable Guest account and Simple File Sharing on the home PC and create the
same account as your domain one (username/password).
Open Local Security Policy snap-in (secpol.msc) and ensure that
*LocalPolicies/SecurityOptions/Network access: Sharing and security model*
is set to *Classic - local users authenticate as themselves*.

 

[Lillian]

Thanks, I will give it a try.