At home: Road Runner Cable coming in through a Linksys Wireless router with one desktop computer (WinXP Home w/SP1) connected via cat5. This PC is of course part of a workgroup. At work: A laptop (WinXP Pro w/SP2) joined to an active directory domain. The problem: When the laptop is brought home and connects to the router (by 802.11g or 10/100) the laptop is incapable of viewing the contents of the workgroup. Interestingly enough, the home desktop PC is also incapable of viewing other computers on workgroup due to apparently a lack of permission. The goal here is to be able to connect the laptop to the shared printer by way of the home desktop PC. Please let me know if you have any ideas on how to accomplish this (particularly if they don't involve taking the laptop off the domain Thank you for taking the time to respond to this message

You would most likely need help from the domain admin. Can't say for sure if you can or can not. The easy way would be to use a usb cable to the corporate laptop if you have permissions to add printers. Ohter ways are make part of workgroup and use ip subnet range. Either install printer software and make port to or use share. Might could use of line printing in unix like, router might support this. You really should ask your domain admin/tech.

Log onto the laptop locally instead of onto the domain (if it is an option). Otherwise you will need to speak with the the administrator of the domain at work. Bryan

Thanks guys for your input. Actually, I am the domain admin so I have all the privelages that can be given. For referrence here are the solutions I have found to be worth anything. Logging onto the laptop locally does work. That is the solution that had been attempted by one of the guys that works for me. However, this leads to a problem for some less computer savvy users. The USB cable works as well but is somewhat inconvenient (at least in some houses). If the money is available the best solution appears to be to upgrade to windows XP Pro on the home computer. It is slightly better in general and is much better about networking and security.