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File and Printer sharing on my home network
LockedHello all,
I’m having some home network problems and could use some advice (and a stiff drink). Here’s what’s going on:
My home network is assigned a workgroup name of ?MYHOME? and an IP range of 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.50. I have a file server with an shared/attached printer. I also have a networked printer with an IP address of 192.168.0.15. All PCs use DCHP to get their IP address.
I?ve shared a folder on the hard drive of my WinXP Pro SP2 file server on the MYHOME workgroup which can be seen and accessed by all the computers — except my WinXP Pro office laptop.
All machines but my office laptop can see the shared drive, the shared printer, and the networked printer.
Each PC can ping another machine on the network. Even my office laptop can ping the other machines — including the router/gateway — but it cant access the mapped drive on the fie server, the shared printer on the file server or the networked printer.
FWIW, the office laptop is part of my company domain, not my MYHOME workgroup, but I dont have a VPN conection active, and the laptop connects to the Internet (via the wireless router) just fine. I just can’t use any of the local resources in my home office — the mapped drives, the shared or networked printer.
Can anyone tell me what I?m missing here? I?ve done what appears to be the obvious, trawled Google, and asked my networking buddies, but since it?s not a true domain (with Win2K3,AD, etc.), all the replies seem irrelevant for my lowly home office network workgroup.
Any and all advice is welcome.
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