Home Network Connection Problem

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Kirk

I have semi-succesfully set up a home network. Here is
what I have and what works and then I'll follow up with
what does not work.
My hardware:
Desktop is a WIN98SE P-Cel 333MHZ 198MB RAM. 6GB Hard
Drive and a 80GB Hard Drive (plenty o swap space)
Connection is Cable Modem. Added a Airlink Router that
has wireless and 4 port capability.
Laptop is a Dell Latitude C610 PIII 1GHZ 256MB RAM WINXP
Pro version 2003 service pack 1. Using a wireless Airlink
PCMCIA card for connection to the router.
Connection is great and I can connect to Internet, and my
work network via a VPN connection with no problem.
Here is the problem. The laptop was set up as a
corporate laptop. I cannot set up a workgroup without
deleting my current corporate workgroup.
One of the main purposes of creating the home network is
so I could print to my printer connected to my desktop
and share a few files here and there.
Anyone know of a work around here?
I thought of creating another VPN. Is that feasible?
Thanks in advance
 
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Q: How can I share files between workgroup computer and domain/workgroup
computer?
I have a home wireless network and share files and a printer between two
computers. I also use Win 2000/XP laptop at work with domain network. How
can I share files between these computers at home?

A: Deepening on your network setup, you may 1) Logon local laptop using the
same logon id and password on both machine.
2) change workgroup name to match win2000 domain and the laptop needs to
install at home first ad then join the domain .
3) without changing the workgroup name and logon ID, just enable guest
account in win 2000/XP.
4) If you are running XP, enable Simple File Sharing.
5) logon domain user on the domain laptop (even the workgroup is different),
use command net use \\workgroupcomputer /user:administrator, (here
administrator is workgroup computer local administrator), the enter
workgroup computer administrator password. You should be able to access the
workgroup resources.
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