Setting up network at home

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Hey all,

Okay, so currently at home, I have a desktop running Windows 2000. The home
computer has broadband internet connected to a wireless router. I also have a
laptop with Win XP Pro, that I use at work and connects to my network there.
When I come home, I can easily connect to the wireless network and surf the
internet from anywhere in the house. Great.

Now, what I would like to do it buy an external networked harddrive to back
up both the contents of my desktop and my laptop. Something like a Maxtor
200GB external. However, to do that I think I need to set up a home network
between my desktop and my laptop. However, my laptop connects to my network
at the office too, and when I tried to configure it to connect to a home
network at home, I ended up locking myself out of the laptop (kept showing me
the login screen and my password wouldn't work). I had to take it to a system
admin to get back on. Is there no way to set up my laptop to run on either of
the networks depending on where I am?

And if I can't, is there someway to still be able to use the external hard
drive? Share printers off the desktop? Any of that? Help would be
appreciated! Thanks!
 
www.netswitcher.com

Or just configure your home network workgroup name and the
username/passwords on your home network machine to match what you use
at work. This would be my choice.

Steve Duff, MCSE, MVP
Ergodic Systems, Inc.
 
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