File Sharing problems 2000 work laptop with xp home desktop

Hi all,

We have a wireless G kit (mn-820), and would like to share a printer &
files from our home desktop, with my husband's work laptop. Is this
possible? The laptop is in a domain, and I've read the knowledge base enough
to know that this is problematic. I set up the xp-home desktop in a
workgroup, and I have sharing enabled on the xp desktop, and have also tried
disabling my mcafee firewall. We can see the desktop computer from the
laptop, but none of it's shares are visible/accessible. I have not been able
to locate a solution that works. Does anybody have ideas, or are we out of
luck?

Thanks very much for any info you can offer!!

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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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"Blueheron" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> We have a wireless G kit (mn-820), and would like to share a printer &
> files from our home desktop, with my husband's work laptop. Is this
> possible? The laptop is in a domain, and I've read the knowledge base
enough
> to know that this is problematic. I set up the xp-home desktop in a
> workgroup, and I have sharing enabled on the xp desktop, and have also
tried
> disabling my mcafee firewall. We can see the desktop computer from the
> laptop, but none of it's shares are visible/accessible. I have not been
able
> to locate a solution that works. Does anybody have ideas, or are we out of
> luck?
>
> Thanks very much for any info you can offer!!
>
>

Thanks so much for all this information! I will try these! Happy New Year!