Windows 2000 pro and Win XP pro

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Previously I was able to connect my work laptop to my home
lan to use shared printers etc. However I find I can no
longer do this. Also I am not able to access shared
resources on the home pc.

I can ping all the computers on the lan from the xp pro
laptop, but cannot ping the xp pro computer from the
windows 2000 pro computers I have at home.

I have set up user accounts on all the computers which
could be used from the work laptop to log in to use them
but the dialogue box asking for user details does not come
up.

The Win XP pro pc does not have a personal fiewall
operating. The situation desccribed persists when I
disable the personal firewall on the home lan computers.

Any suggestions gratefully received.

Ged
 
Ged said:
Previously I was able to connect my work laptop to my home
lan to use shared printers etc. However I find I can no
longer do this. Also I am not able to access shared
resources on the home pc.

I can ping all the computers on the lan from the xp pro
laptop, but cannot ping the xp pro computer from the
windows 2000 pro computers I have at home.

I have set up user accounts on all the computers which
could be used from the work laptop to log in to use them
but the dialogue box asking for user details does not come
up.

The Win XP pro pc does not have a personal fiewall
operating. The situation desccribed persists when I
disable the personal firewall on the home lan computers.

Any suggestions gratefully received.

Ged
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Start a Command Prompt on each machine, then run this
command:

ipconfig /all > c:\ipconfig.txt

Now post the contents of each of these files here so that
we can examine your settings.
 
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.
 
Thanks for this. I am thrown by this because on a previous
build (same os etc) 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 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
 
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
 
No, I do not recommend naming your workgroup the same as your company
domain. I only mentioned that because I know many people use this as a
workaround but it is a security bypass that I am not comfortable
recommending to anyone. If you need a reason, just ask your company's
network administrator.
You should login to the laptop locally (on the login screen, click Options
and click the drop-down so you can change it from the domain name to the
laptop name.) If you don't have a local username/password, again, you will
need to talk to your company's helpdesk or network admin.
You should then use that same local username/password on your home computers
and assign permissions to the shares. You should then be able to share
everything just fine.

Of course, all of this depends on proper tcp/ip connectivity first and since
you can't ping the laptop, you might want to check that too. Are you using
DHCP?
 
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