Accessing home network with corporate laptop

Just got a new corporate laptop with XP professional.
I can access all corporate function(intranet, the internet, and
Outlook mail services) by either ethernet cable or through my Netgear
wireless router. I do have to run VPN Client after I connect.

So once I'm hardwired, or connected wireless, how can I connect to my
home network, to share files and access printers ?

On Feb 5, 3:09*pm, UPNDOWN <ftw5shopp...@fastmail.us> wrote:
> *Just got a new corporate laptop with XP professional.
> I can access all corporate function(intranet, the internet, and
> Outlook mail services) by either ethernet cable or through my Netgear
> wireless router. *I do have to run VPN Client after I connect.
>
> So once I'm hardwired, or connected wireless, *how can I connect to my
> home network, to share files and access printers ?

Update on trying. XP professionial say because the laptop belongs to
a domain, I can't create a network.
When I tried creating a wireless home network, after I typed in all
the information, I was able to see my home network, use the printer,
but then I couldn't log in to my companies network. My logins for VPN
were invalid. So the company reset everything, so everything works,
but my home network disappeared. So I assuming this won't work
either.

Does anybody have any other ideas.

One other question, If I upgrade my Netgear wireless router to one
with VPN, can I use CISCO VPN client to get to my network that way?

"UPNDOWN" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>On Feb 5, 3:09 pm, UPNDOWN <ftw5shopp...@fastmail.us> wrote:
>> Just got a new corporate laptop with XP professional.
>> I can access all corporate function(intranet, the internet, and
>> Outlook mail services) by either ethernet cable or through my Netgear
>> wireless router. I do have to run VPN Client after I connect.
>>
>> So once I'm hardwired, or connected wireless, how can I connect to my
>> home network, to share files and access printers ?
>
>Update on trying. XP professionial say because the laptop belongs to
>a domain, I can't create a network.
>When I tried creating a wireless home network, after I typed in all
>the information, I was able to see my home network, use the printer,
>but then I couldn't log in to my companies network. My logins for VPN
>were invalid. So the company reset everything, so everything works,
>but my home network disappeared. So I assuming this won't work
>either.
>
>Does anybody have any other ideas.
>
>One other question, If I upgrade my Netgear wireless router to one
>with VPN, can I use CISCO VPN client to get to my network that way?
>
Did you contact the IP services at your "corporate" ?
This *must* be the *best* place to grab the needed informations to fullfill
your requirements.

"ray" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "UPNDOWN" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:3b98e2c4-3bbd-4c82-bfa2->(E-Mail Removed)...
> >On Feb 5, 3:09 pm, UPNDOWN <ftw5shopp...@fastmail.us> wrote:
> >> Just got a new corporate laptop with XP professional.
> >> I can access all corporate function(intranet, the internet, and
> >> Outlook mail services) by either ethernet cable or through my Netgear
> >> wireless router. I do have to run VPN Client after I connect.
> >>
> >> So once I'm hardwired, or connected wireless, how can I connect to my
> >> home network, to share files and access printers ?
> >
> >Update on trying. XP professionial say because the laptop belongs to
> >a domain, I can't create a network.
> >When I tried creating a wireless home network, after I typed in all
> >the information, I was able to see my home network, use the printer,
> >but then I couldn't log in to my companies network. My logins for VPN
> >were invalid. So the company reset everything, so everything works,
> >but my home network disappeared. So I assuming this won't work
> >either.
> >
> >Does anybody have any other ideas.
> >
> >One other question, If I upgrade my Netgear wireless router to one
> >with VPN, can I use CISCO VPN client to get to my network that way?
> >
> Did you contact the IP services at your "corporate" ?
> This *must* be the *best* place to grab the needed informations to
fullfill
> your requirements.
>


I've not tried it but I believe one trick is to set your home workgroup to
be the same as the Domain... Say your domain name is MyCo.com. Call your
workgroup MyCo with no .com. Set the workgroup account name and password to
be the same as you use for the domain..
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Google suggests..

How to take a domain laptop to a workgroup
http://winhlp.com/node/87