SteveK-O
10-29-2002, 03:47 AM
I have a home network that used to work sharing internet, files, printers. It had a wired desktop Win 98 machine and a wireless laptop Win 95 machine with a SMC 7004AWBR wireless router. The SMC has a 3-port 10/100 Mbps dual speed switch, NAT router, hardware firewall, built-in print server, 802.11b Access Point, and web-based management. It has a built-in DHCP server to auto-assign IP addresses. On the WAN side, I have a cable modem.
I replaced the Win 95 laptop with a new Win 2000 Professional laptop from work. It gets on my network, gets an IP, gets to the outside internet, but it can't see anything else on the LAN side of the router. Here's the difficult part. The Win 2000 Pro laptop is assigned to a domain at work, let's call it WORK. I can't change it so all computers are in the same workgroup. Twice I did this and had to have a network administrator at work change the laptop back to the domain as you apparently need to be a network administrator to do this. They were not happy.
So, it there any hope to getting this computer see my home network to share files and printers while leaving it in the WORK domain? Can I setup a server on the Win 2000 machine to have the Win 98 login to? Do I need to add a separate NT server? I'm confused and discouraged especially since it all used to work.
Thanks,
Steve
I replaced the Win 95 laptop with a new Win 2000 Professional laptop from work. It gets on my network, gets an IP, gets to the outside internet, but it can't see anything else on the LAN side of the router. Here's the difficult part. The Win 2000 Pro laptop is assigned to a domain at work, let's call it WORK. I can't change it so all computers are in the same workgroup. Twice I did this and had to have a network administrator at work change the laptop back to the domain as you apparently need to be a network administrator to do this. They were not happy.
So, it there any hope to getting this computer see my home network to share files and printers while leaving it in the WORK domain? Can I setup a server on the Win 2000 machine to have the Win 98 login to? Do I need to add a separate NT server? I'm confused and discouraged especially since it all used to work.
Thanks,
Steve