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Adding a network printer - different network

I have a school laptop that is connected to a domain within my school. But when I take the laptop home, I would like to be able to print on my home printer (connected to another PC), and share file between the computers. I have a wirless network at the moment, sharing an internet connection.

This issue is that my home PC (XPhome) is on a workgroup and does not have the ability to connect to a domain. My laptop is on XpPro, and I cannot change it from its current domain.

How can I share A printer and files - from two computer that are running off of the same router, yet have different networks?

Thanks,

Scot

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jar3817

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Juan Ocasio

to add to jar3817's remmendation, you should also make sure your computers at home are in the same IP range as your office. So if your office is 192.168.123.0/24, then you should give your network the same IP address range. This way when you come in you should be able to automatically connect and then you'll be able to use \\ipaddress. Also, if you log onto the local machine of your laptop (make sure you do this at work so you can rejoin your domain) you can create the same user and password on the laptop as on your desktop.

HTH

jocasio

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bcohea

sorry... command prompt is (Start > Run > cmd)

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